Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio Nuouamente Corretto et Con Diligentia Stampato. Venice: Philippo di Giunta (actually Angelo Pasinelli), 1527 (but 1729), 8vo.
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The colophon states this was published in 1527 by Philippo di Giunta, but it is actually the famous historic facsimile of Giunta's 1527 edition which is noted as a very finely produced and particularly deceptive replication which was produced in Venice in 1729 by Angelo Pasinelli at the expense of Joseph Smith, the British Consul.
Most bibliographies of this work give a print run of just 300 copies, many of which were burnt at a warehouse fire making it quite a scarce edition indeed. It is quite difficult to distinguish this with the 1527 original, but the main difference is the corrected pagination of pages 42, 101, and 108, which were incorrectly paginated in the original. This is a lovely example of a famous 'fake' book, housed in a very attractive contemporary full morocco binding.
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Size: 130 x 200 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(7), AA3, a-z8, *8, **8, ***8, A-H8, I12, (6)]
Contemporary very fine binding, full red morocco finely tooled in gilt to the spine which supplies the date of 1527 below the olive tooled morocco label, a little chipped. Spine rubbed and a little dry, would benefit from the application of a leather conditioner. Minor shelf & edge wear. Both boards are securely attached and the binding stands without shelf lean. Yellow endpapers, stained. A very large number of blanks present, pencil inscription on verso of first, and 19th century ink ownership inscription on recto of the second blank of B.P. Knight. Repair to lower portion of title leaf, some toning/foxing to this leaf, else exceptionally bright and clean throughout. A lovely example of this scarce famous 'fake' book of the 18th century.
