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ENTERTAINING ROMANTIC STORIES OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FLEEING THE BLACK DEATH IN ITALY AND, AS A RESULT, TAKE TURNS TELLING ROMANTIC STORIES EACH EVENING DURING THEIR 10 DAY FLIGHT.
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THEBLACK DEATH, Fiction, historical, general, Europe, fiction, Fiction, Plague, Storytelling, History, Ficción, Italian literature, Middle Ages, Peste bubónica, Narración de cuentos, Juvenile literature, Historia, Translations from Italian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Glossaries, Hebrew literature, DIllustrations, Illustration of books, Italian Short stories, Language, Translations into English, Translations, Translations into Hebrew, Alegorías, English Short stories, Classic Literature, Literature, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Popular Print Disabled Books, Charts, diagrams, Physiology, Human anatomy, Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction, Storytelling -- Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, erotica, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Middle High German, Works in Middle High German, Fiction, general, Boccaccio, giovanni, 1313-1375, Italian literature, translations into english, Allegories, Frame-stories, Literature, collections, Canon (Literature), Art de conter, Romans, nouvelles, Peste, Histoire, Moyen Âge, Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature), Jaffe Collection, Plague in fiction, Storytelling in fiction, Literature in Spanish, Italian fiction, Plague--history, Plague--europe--history--fiction, Storytelling--fiction, Pq4272.e5 a355 1972, 853/.1People
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), J. M. Rigg (1855-1926), Vincenzo Brusantino Conte, Thomas Wright (1810-1877)Times
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Signatures: Aœ́ Bœ́(℗łB1) C-Vœ́ 2Aı́ 2B-2Nœ́, [A]þ́ [par.]-2[par.]þ́ 3[par.]℗ø B-2Zþ́ 3Aœ́
Pagination: [6], 127, 146-210, [2]; [14], 134, 137-187 [i.e. 188] leaves
Title page within ornamental border; head- and tailpieces; initials.
Translation sometimes attributed to John Florio.
"The first volume has a final errata leaf; the last leaf is blank. The second volume has a preliminary blank leaf and title page reading "The decameron .. The last fiue dayes."--Cf. ESTC
The last two leaves of vol. 2 are numbered 177, 187.
Vol. 1, B ́is a cancel with recto catchword "and". Variant: with cancellandum B,́ recto catchword "then."
Entered to W. Jaggard 22 March [1620].
ESTC S106639
STC (2nd ed.) 3172
Pforzheimer, 71
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Charles Lewis in umber morocco panelled and tooled in gilt with the armorial super-ex-libris of Francis Darby on both covers. The spine is panelled and gilt with floral tools and two leather labels. The leather bookplate of Harold Murdock is present on the front pastedown. The final blank leaf of vol. 1 and the initial blank leaf of vol. 2 are both wanting.
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