buckland wright john boccaccio (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John (illustrator). THIS IS A HEAVY SET SO EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED - PLEASE ASK FOR A POSTAGE QUOTATION BEFORE ORDERING. 2 volumes, 394, 324pp, well-illustrated with aquatints by Buckland-Wright, bound in green pictorial cloth, gilt lettered, lettering faded on Vol II, with accompanying slipcase but this is rather worn and tatty, good condition, Folio Society, London, 1998. * an important book, both for the content and because these 14th century stories span the transition from medieaval literature to more modern times.

Zustand: Good. Some heavy foxing on outer edge of pages and first and last few pages in book. Content is fine.

Leather. Zustand: FINE. 712 pp. 10? x 6?? Copy number 1069 of an edition limited to 1750. Printed by St Edmundsbury Press and finely bound in red Nigerian 'Wassa' goatskin by Real Lachenmaier in Germany. Gilt and navy blue blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Green morroco spine label, top edge gilt, ribbon marker. Presented in a green solander box, together with a booklet ?The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron? by selected writers. Set in Poliphilus. Entirely clean and sharp with no evidence of life outside the box.