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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...than the text. The text begins on the recto The signatures a, b, c, d, e, run in eights: f has six leaves. On the recto off vj is the colophon, thus: dtxplicir lib!!! manna aigfibi Qllllmti $859 apt hillam santti filllhani a. m. cm lax This copy had belonged successively to Tutet and Wodhull. A ms. treatise, in a later hand, concludes the volume. The present is a sound and desirable copy. BOCCACCIO. Ir. Dscamznosn. Printed by V aldarfer. 1471. Folio. This is the famous edition about which all the Journals of Europe have recently rung from side to side. But it wants much in value of rm; yet more famous coPY which was sold at the sale of the Duke of Roxburghe's library; inasmuch as it is defective in the first leaf of the text, and three leaves of the table. In the whole, according to the comparatively recent numerals, there are 265 leaves. It has been rather cruelly washed, and almost as cruelly cropt--for even these comparatively modern numerals have been, occasionally, nearly cut away. This copy measures eleven inches and a. half, by seven inches and seven eighths. It is bound in red morocco, with inside marble leaves. THE SAME WORK. Printed by P. Adam de Michaelibus. Mantua, 1472. An edition of almost equal ' Now in Lord Spencer's Collection. See vol. i. p. 236. rarity with the preceding; and of which, I suspect, there is only one perfect copy in our own country. Lord Spencer's is unluckily very imperfect. The colophon is in four lines, of which the last line is at some little distance from the third. It runs thus: Io. Bocacii poetae lepidiss. decameron: opus facetii: Mantuaa ipressil: Cum eius floretiss. urbis principatii foeliciss. ageret diuus Lodouicus gonzaga secundus. Anno ab origine...

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