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Thirteene most pleasaunt and delectable questions : entitled, A disport of diverse noble personages / written in Italian by John Bocace ... in his booke named Philocopo ; Englished anno 1566 by H. G. ; to which is prefixed an introduction by Edward Hutton.

Accession number
PML 129255
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published
London : Peter Davies, 1927.
Credit line
Gift of Jan van der Marck, 2003.
Notes
Binder's title: Questions of love.
Half-title: Thirteen questions of love.
A translation of the fourth part of Filocolo, 1526, by H. G.
"H.G. would seem to be either Henry Grantham or Humphrey Gifford."--Pref.
"Printed in Holland"--T.p. verso.
"Five hundred and twenty copies only of this book have been printed at Haarlem at the house of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. The fount in which it is printed was reconstructed early in the present century from the remaining characters of a fount designed and made by Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim (1420-1500), some sixty matrices of which were acquired by Joh. Enschedé in the year 1768, from Jacobus Scheffers, Printer at Bois-le-Duc, a descendent of the original maker. ..."--Colophon.
Printed in black and blue on the presses of Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem in 520 copies on laid Van Gelder.
Description
xxiij, 102 p. ; 24 cm
Provenance
Jan van der Marck.
Binding
Full vellum binding with gilt spine.
Classification
Department