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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The decameron containing an hundred pleasant nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen.

Accession number
PML 5851
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published
London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, 1620.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The first ed. in English (the translator is not known), 2 v. in 1, with second title also dated 1620. 4°.
Leaf 187 is wrongly numbered 177 and is inserted between 184 & 185. Last leaf numbered 187 instead of 188. Leaf 175 is numbered 174.
Description
2 v. ; 28.1 cm
Provenance
The Asay-Irwin copy.
Binding
Olive morocco, richly tooled.
Classification
Department