Theodore & Honoria : a translation from Boccaccio / by John Dryden ; illustrated by Carol Walklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, author.

Contributor:

Walklin, Carol, illustrator.

Libanus Press, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Theodore and Honoria

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

England--Marlborough.

Genre:

Private press books.

Numbered limited editions.

Type specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Perpetua.

Velin Arches (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[34] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm

Other Title:

Theodore and Honoria

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Libanus Press, MCMLXXXV [1985].

Notes:

A free rendering into heroic verse of the story found in giornata V, novella 8 of Boccaccio's Decameron. originally published (as Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace) in 1700 as a section of Dryden's Fables ancient and modern.

"Limited to three hundred copies ... ; copies 1-50 are bound in quarter leather & copies 51 to 270 in linen and board ... ; 30 sets of sheets, 271 to 300, complete the edition"--Colophon.

Printed in Perpetua on Velin Arches rag paper.--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection has copy number 71.

ISBN:

0948021020

9780948021022

OCLC:

17354172