The Decameron contains 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men set as they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death
1934. Hardcover. Three quarter leather. The first volume only. The title page has Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press ... By Basil Blackwell. Under the next page entitled The Modell of Wit etc ... it has Printed by Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625. This is a numbered copy, No 307 of 325. Has the look of hand made paper. All good condition apart from the tissue guard which is quite worn.. Quarto.