THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO 2007 FOLIO SOCIETY LIMITED EDITION

[BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI]. The Decameron. Westminster: Folio Society, 2007.

First edition thus. Limited edition -- one of 1750 copies. Leather-bound and presented in buckram-bound Solander box. Hardcover. Thick quarto. 712 pages. Handsomely bound in publisher's original red Wassa Goatskin, lettered and blocked with gilt geometric designs on the covers and spine by Jeff Clements; separate leather titling label; t.e.g. Includes a slim 8pp. pamphlet: "The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron". Translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated with 20 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Silk ribbon marker. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy.