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The Decameron of Giovani Boccaccio : as first completely done into English prose and verse / by John Payne.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Zinman 151.5
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Contributor:
Payne, John, 1842-1916.
J .P. Horn & Co., publisher.
Canvassing and Sample Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
Dummies (Bookselling).
Booksellers and bookselling.
Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription etc.
Bookbinding--Specimens.
Bookbinding.
Genre:
Specimens.
Penn Provenance:
Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)
Physical Description:
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
[Publisher's sample book].
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : J.P. Horn & Company, 1928.
Notes:
Publisher's sample book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations.
Binding: cloth binding, with two cloth spine samples mounted to rear pastedown.
Copyright 1928 by J.P. Horn & Co.
On recto of fly-leaf: "The Certaldo Edition of The Decameron is limited to fifteen hundred and fifty sets."
Not in Arbour.
OCLC:
1288271576

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