Description: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron. Translated by John Payne. Illustrated by Louis Chalon. Complete in Two Volumes. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. Limited to one thousand copies, of which this is number 744. Volume one is illustrated with nine plates with tissue guards. Volume two is illustrated with six plates with tissue guards. A collection of one-hundred short stories, originally written in the fourteenth century, told by a group of seven young women and three young men as they shelter in a villa outside of Florence to escape the Black Death. Translated by John Payne, an English poet and translator. Illustrated by Louis Chalon, a French artist who exhibited classically inspired paintings. Green cloth binding, with gilt decoration and lettering. Edgewear to boards, some fraying to corners. Toning to edges, touch of dampstaining to lower edges of several pages to both volumes.
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Restocking Fee: No
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Fine Binding
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: Lawrence and Bullen
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1893
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Louis Chalon
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Region: Europe
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Topic: Literature
