Amorous Fiametta
by Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Navarre Society, 1926 Limited Edition on "fine quality paper", gilt top edges. Foredges uncut. Red cloth with gilt decorations especially on spine. lix, 350pp. Frontispiece is an illuminated page from edition of 1587 with tissue. Text is modernized from translation of Bartholomew Young in 1587. Introduction by Edward Hutton. Endpapers browned some with owner's bookplate. Text clean, tight and bright. no jacket believe to be as issued. near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11691
- Title
- Amorous Fiametta
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Navarre Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cultural Connection
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Cape Coral, Florida
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...