Buy this book on-line BOCCACCIO**, GIOVANNI - Introduction by Edward Hutton: : AMOROUS FIAMMETTALONDON.NAVARRE SOCIETY,nd.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,limited but un-numbered,
undated,1st edn; privately printed.
VG++/VG-.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Pictorial illustrated dw/dj with chipping,nicks with some minimal loss and closed tears to top+bottom edges.
Minor loss to both head+foot of spine/
backstrip,closed tears to upper right and
bottom rear corners with some minor loss to upper front's bottom right corner.Rear panel,top edge some minor loss approx 1.75" x 4/5".Top+fore-edges slightly aged as usual/normal but clean; contents tight and clean with page-edges browned.
Publisher's original red cloth with stamped gilt letters,slightly oxidised.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,ltd.,1st edn,lipp+1-356pp includes title+half-title pages,intro,a dedication,and author prologue.Modernised from the only English translation,made by Bartholomew Yong and printed by John Charlwood in 1587,of which only four copies are known to exist,revised with an introduction by Edward Hutton.
Privately printed by The Navarre Society Limited,a private press publishing classical literature and erotica.An uncommon title from this press.
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