Accession number
PML 18707
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published
[London] : Imprinted at London, by John Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne overagainst the Conduite in Fletestrete, [1554?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovannni. De casibus illustrium virorum.
Publication date conjectured by STC.
Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁶[±[Maltese cross]1] A-Y⁶ z⁴ [sec.]⁶ W⁶ *⁶ ²[Maltese cross]⁶ [par.]⁶ 2A-2F⁶ 2G⁴.
The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.
The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to STC 1246, which was intended to have formed part 2 of the present work, but the printing was suppressed.
Publication date conjectured by STC.
Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁶[±[Maltese cross]1] A-Y⁶ z⁴ [sec.]⁶ W⁶ *⁶ ²[Maltese cross]⁶ [par.]⁶ 2A-2F⁶ 2G⁴.
The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.
The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to STC 1246, which was intended to have formed part 2 of the present work, but the printing was suppressed.
Description
[9], clxiii, xxxvi, xxxv-xxxvii, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 34 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"By me George Venables" inscribed on +4r, occasional unidentified marginal notes.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Brown morocco binding by Riviere & son.
Classification
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Department