Boccacce - Le Décaméron de Jean Boccace - 1757

THE PRINCE GALEOTTO: THE FAMOUS EROTIC CENTURY OF BOCCACCIO
Highly valuable edition with a total of 5 frontispieces, a portrait, large figures outside the text, decorated with culs-de-lampe by Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, engraved by Aliamet and Baquoy.
Beautiful illustrated edition, one of the most successful of the 18th century. At the head is the life of J. Boccaccio, the Florentine poet, translated from Italian by Villani. This edition, published in Paris under a false name of London, uses the same illustrations as the Italian edition published in 1757.
Rare if bound as in this case in perfectly preserved contemporary Moroccan leather.

CONDITION REPORT
5 volumes. Full leather binding. 6-rib spine with gold-engraved title. Woodcut title on the frontispiece. Numerous plates outside the text. The internal pages do not show particular signs of wear or stains; overall good state of conservation of the work. Five volumes, engraved title, portrait, viii-320 pages / engraved title, 292 pages / engraved title, 203 pages / engraved title, 280 pages / engraved title, 169 pages.

FULL TITLES & AUTHORS
The Decameron
London, 1757
Giovanni Boccaccio / Antoine Le Mâcon