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Lot 12

BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI)
Il Decamerone, Venice, Gregorio de Gregori, 1516

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£6,000 - £8,000

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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI)

Il Decamerone, edited by Niccolo Delfino, with errata and final blank, title lightly finger-soiled, eighteenth century green morocco reliure de présente, spine gilt, joints rubbed, spine dry and with chip at head, 8vo (185 x 115mm.), Venice, Gregorio de Gregori, 1516

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Scarce Venetian edition of the Decameron, not listed in Adams, or as having been offered at auction since 1979. The "almost simultaneous" rival 1516 editions of the Decameron - the other being by Giunta in Florence - exemplified "a completely fresh approach to the correctness of the text itself" (Brian Richardson, 'Italian Studies Library Group Bulletin', 2010). Delfino "claimed to have restored the work 'alla sua intera et chiara lettione', selecting from 'molti antichissimi testi' those parts that seemed to correspond most closely to the author's intention."

Provenance: "Ex dono [name erased], 1786", inscription on flyleaf; John Charles Wilson, bookplate by H. Salt.

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