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Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON, 2 Vols
Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON, 2 Vols
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Publisher: Lawrence and Bullen, London
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Chalon, Louis
First thus, 2 volumes.
Publisher's original green, watered silk bindings, pp. xxiii, 325 & pp. xii, 383, illustrated with tissue-guarded plates by Louis Chalon. Numbered 717 of 1000 copies.
Extremities bumped and worn, edges darkened with some staining to the fore-edge of Vol II, but in very presentable condition overall, firm and square bindings and covers clean - a nice set.
As a bonus, at each top inside corner of the rear pastedowns is a small, contemporary-looking tipped-on label from JW Robinson, the Los Angeles department store, which reads "From the books of JW Robinson, 2 Vols, $30".
Sounds like quite a lot of money for the time!.
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