BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone. Londra [i.e. Paris: Prault], 1757. 5 volumes, 8° (204 x 126mm). Engraved title to each volume, engraved portrait of Boccaccio, 110 engraved plates by Le Mire, Lempereur, Flipart and others after Gravelot (89), Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, ADDITIONAL ENGRAVED PLATE AFTER GRAVELOT facing p.49, vol. V, plates with paraphs on versos, engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout afer Gravelot. (Paraphs occasionally trimmed, corner of A3, vol. III torn without loss of text, paperfault in blank lower margin of F5, vol. IV, most leaves with slight crease to lower outer corner.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet borders and floral corner-pieces, spines in seven compartments with floral and foliate tools, brown morocco lettering-pieces onlaid in two, g.e. (neat repair to front cover of vol. I and back cover of vol. IV). LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF THESE PLATES, as indicated by the stamped paraph on the verso of each. The present copy fulfills almost exactly Ray's requirements for the "ideal copy" of this work: in addition to the paraphs, it is printed on papier de Hollande , it has the Italian text, (which includes better impressions of Gravelot's head- and tail-pieces than later French-language editions), and has a contemporary morocco binding. The additional plate bound in volume V is not mentioned in any bibliographies; it is numbered as plate 18 for volume V, but bears no resemblance to the 'real' plate 18, and seems to belong to the same story as plate 8, which immediately precedes it. It is possible that it is one of the suite libre of plates issued to supplement the original plates, but Cohen-de Ricci claims that all these (unlike this plate) were unsigned. Cohen-de Ricci 158-160 ("Un des livres illustrés des plus réussis de tout le XVIII e siècle"); Ray French 15; Sander 182 (5)
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone. Londra [i.e. Paris: Prault], 1757. 5 volumes, 8° (204 x 126mm). Engraved title to each volume, engraved portrait of Boccaccio, 110 engraved plates by Le Mire, Lempereur, Flipart and others after Gravelot (89), Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, ADDITIONAL ENGRAVED PLATE AFTER GRAVELOT facing p.49, vol. V, plates with paraphs on versos, engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout afer Gravelot. (Paraphs occasionally trimmed, corner of A3, vol. III torn without loss of text, paperfault in blank lower margin of F5, vol. IV, most leaves with slight crease to lower outer corner.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet borders and floral corner-pieces, spines in seven compartments with floral and foliate tools, brown morocco lettering-pieces onlaid in two, g.e. (neat repair to front cover of vol. I and back cover of vol. IV). LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF THESE PLATES, as indicated by the stamped paraph on the verso of each. The present copy fulfills almost exactly Ray's requirements for the "ideal copy" of this work: in addition to the paraphs, it is printed on papier de Hollande , it has the Italian text, (which includes better impressions of Gravelot's head- and tail-pieces than later French-language editions), and has a contemporary morocco binding. The additional plate bound in volume V is not mentioned in any bibliographies; it is numbered as plate 18 for volume V, but bears no resemblance to the 'real' plate 18, and seems to belong to the same story as plate 8, which immediately precedes it. It is possible that it is one of the suite libre of plates issued to supplement the original plates, but Cohen-de Ricci claims that all these (unlike this plate) were unsigned. Cohen-de Ricci 158-160 ("Un des livres illustrés des plus réussis de tout le XVIII e siècle"); Ray French 15; Sander 182 (5)
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