Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Decamerone di m. Giovanni Boccaccio nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, 14 April 1527
The famous Ventisettana edition in an elegant legatura parlante for Michele da Prato.
4to (210 x 140 mm). Italic text, 39 lines plus headline. collation: AA8 a-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-H8 I12: 292 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso.
binding: Contemporary Italian (Florentine?) black morocco with elaborate interlaced decoration composed of gilt and blind fillets with central cartouche lettered DI MICHELE DA PRATO on both covers (220 x 157 mm), spine with blind and gilt fillet decoration with small flower stamp in each compartment, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design, stubs from four pairs of ties. (Binding slightly worn, text-block uneven resulting in some rubbing of edges, spine slightly worn with small tear at head.)
provenance: Michele da Prato, name on binding (perhaps Michele Modesto of Prato, born 1510?) — Dominic Winter, sale, 11 September 2019, lot 149. acquisition: Purchased from the preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: Edit16 6271; Pettas, Giunti of Florence 217; Renouard L/93
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Decamerone di m. Giovanni Boccaccio nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, 14 April 1527
The famous Ventisettana edition in an elegant legatura parlante for Michele da Prato.
4to (210 x 140 mm). Italic text, 39 lines plus headline. collation: AA8 a-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-H8 I12: 292 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso.
binding: Contemporary Italian (Florentine?) black morocco with elaborate interlaced decoration composed of gilt and blind fillets with central cartouche lettered DI MICHELE DA PRATO on both covers (220 x 157 mm), spine with blind and gilt fillet decoration with small flower stamp in each compartment, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design, stubs from four pairs of ties. (Binding slightly worn, text-block uneven resulting in some rubbing of edges, spine slightly worn with small tear at head.)
provenance: Michele da Prato, name on binding (perhaps Michele Modesto of Prato, born 1510?) — Dominic Winter, sale, 11 September 2019, lot 149. acquisition: Purchased from the preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: Edit16 6271; Pettas, Giunti of Florence 217; Renouard L/93
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