Tales from Boccaccio / Englished from the French of Jean de La Fontaine ; illustrated by Richard Floethe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695, author.

Contributor:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Floethe, Richard, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, printer, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone--Adaptations.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Italian literature--Translations into English.

Italian literature.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Poetry.

Adaptations.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

124 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, [1947]

Notes:

Freely translated from La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers.

"Copyright 1947 by the Peter Pauper Press"--verso of title page.

In slipcase.

"The verses that you have just read Were printed on our own press bed, In types designed by Baskerville -- Old types -- but quite delightful still ; The paper, as you will remark, Has our own grain and watermark; And if you're sure you'll not be vexed, We will confess we've changed the text: --It's much improved, if we think right -- And all is done for your delight.--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 558 (page 154)

Related Work:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.

OCLC:

1964881