Accession number
PML 128755-59
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published
Londra [i.e. Paris : Prault], 1757-[1761]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2001.
Notes
False imprint.
Although the title-pages are all dated 1757, some of the tailpieces in vols. 2-5 are dated between 1758-61.
Title-pages, plates, head- and tailpieces engraved after designs by Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin, & Eisen.
This copy with the additional suite of plates by Gravelot, "Estampes galantes des Contes de Boccace."
"Vita di ... Boccaccio ... scritta da Filippo ... Villani": v. 1, p. i-vi.
Although the title-pages are all dated 1757, some of the tailpieces in vols. 2-5 are dated between 1758-61.
Title-pages, plates, head- and tailpieces engraved after designs by Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin, & Eisen.
This copy with the additional suite of plates by Gravelot, "Estampes galantes des Contes de Boccace."
"Vita di ... Boccaccio ... scritta da Filippo ... Villani": v. 1, p. i-vi.
Description
5 v., 110 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm.
Binding
Full red morocco tooled in gilt to a dentelle pattern.
Classification
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