Accession number
PML 41119
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published
[Londra : Per Tommaso Edlin, 1725]
Credit line
Gift of John J. Slocum (Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), 17 Oct. 1949.
Notes
"Nomi de' signori sottoscriventi" on f°. ...
"Vita ... scritta da Filippo di Matteo Villani."
First publication of the Italian text in England.
Line-for-line reprint of the edition published in Florence in 1527 by Philippo di Giunta.
On verso of second t.p.: Londra, Per Tommaso Edlin, MDCCXXV. With printer's device.
Plates: Front. engraved by Bernard Baron (d. 1742) after a design by Guiseppe Grisoni (Pierre Joseph Grison, 1699-1769); portrait of ...
Reprint of the rare and authoritative Giuntina ed.: Firenze, per li heredi di Philippo di Giunta, 24 Apr., 1527 by Paolo Rolli, Italian poet (1687-1765) during his sojourn in London.
"Vita ... scritta da Filippo di Matteo Villani."
First publication of the Italian text in England.
Line-for-line reprint of the edition published in Florence in 1527 by Philippo di Giunta.
On verso of second t.p.: Londra, Per Tommaso Edlin, MDCCXXV. With printer's device.
Plates: Front. engraved by Bernard Baron (d. 1742) after a design by Guiseppe Grisoni (Pierre Joseph Grison, 1699-1769); portrait of ...
Reprint of the rare and authoritative Giuntina ed.: Firenze, per li heredi di Philippo di Giunta, 24 Apr., 1527 by Paolo Rolli, Italian poet (1687-1765) during his sojourn in London.
Description
[12], 284 leaves, [12], 49 p. : port. (engraving) ; 23 cm
Provenance
In the possession of Thomas Gray until his death in 1771; passed to the Rev. William Mason, the poet's literary executor; on Mason's death, 1797 left to Richard Stonhewer, friend of Gray and First Lord of the Treasury during the reign of George III in the Duke of Grafton's Cabinet; passed to Stonhewer's newphew the Rev. John Bright of Skeffington Hall, Leicestershire and sold on his death at Evans's Auction Rooms, 27 Nov. 1845 item 757. In the libraries of Granville Penn of Stoke Poges, great grandson of William Penn (sale 28 Aug. 1851 and bought by Hanrott); Philip Augustus Hanrott, with 15 lines of his autographed notes on fly-leaf (sale 28-30 Jan. 1857); Sir William Augustus Fraser, with his armorial book-plate (sale Apr. 22-30, 1901 item 160); Watts Sherman; Lady Camoys, daughter of Watts Sherman and bought of Lady Camoys in Jan. 1949 by John J. Slocum ...
Binding
Bound by Clarke and F. Bedford in green morocco, stamped in gold with dentelles; edges gilt and marbled.
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