Joseph Jacobs / Byam Shaw (ill) - Tales from Boccaccio - 1899

"Tales from Boccaccio" by Boccaccio and translated by Joseph Jacobs and ill. by Byam Shaw - George Allen, London - 1899 first UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, decorated binding, some rubbing to boards, writing on half title page, all Byam Shaw ill. present

The subject matter is taken from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a series of novellas written in the 14th Century, narrated by a group of young Florentines who tell stories to entertain themselves as they hide in isolation away from the Black Plague ravaging their city. In 1899 Byam Shaw illustrated a new edition, Tales from Boccaccio done into English by Joseph Jacobs