The Decameron, or Ten Days Entertainment of Boccace [Boccaccio]. Translated from the Italian. London: Printed for R. Dodsley. MDCCXLI (1741).
The first edition of the famous Charles Balguy translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, long considered the canonical translation into English of this classic work.
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Provenance:
Inscribed "Nicholas Nicholas 1777".
Size: 134 x 206 x 4 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[i-vii, errata pp., 49pp., pp.66-79, pp.64-591] - misprinted page numbers, eg. leaf is numbered 49 on one side and 66 on the other.
Spine with very minor superficial scratches and rubbing. Tooled label present. Both boards attached with cracked joints and hinges. Boards with very minor scratches and discolouration. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Pen ownership inscription and pencil inscription on front pastedown. Edge toning as commensurate with the binding to endpapers. Small wormhole getting smaller throughout text block, ending with leaf numbered 565/566. Text block very clean with light toning and very sporadic very minor foxing.
