THE DECAMERON (4 Volumes, Complete)
Published by Gibbings & Co. in London 1898
SKU: 56817
£55.00
FIRST THUS 4 Volumes. Small 8vo. red cloth hardbacks, gilt titles to spines and decorative gilt to upper boards. t.e.g. Volume I: 250pp. plus 32pp. Publisher's catalogue at end. Volume II: 342pp. Volume III: 356pp. Volume IV: 347pp. All four volumes illustrated with b/w plates from the 1757 Edition by Gravelot, Eisen, Boucher and others. All volumes with engraved bookplates featuring the coronet of a Peerage Baron or Lord of Parliament (Scotland) along with the initial "H". Slight marks to free endpapers where glue from edges of bookplates have stuck. Occasional light foxing, mainly to untrimmed foredges. Spines slightly and uniformly faded. A VERY GOOD SET.