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Giovanni Boccaccio. Le Decameron de Jean Boccace. Londres [Paris, chez Pierre Prault], 1757-1761. Five octavo volume... (Total: 5 Items)
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A Beautiful Gravelot Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio. Le Decameron de Jean
Boccace. Londres [Paris, chez Pierre Prault], 1757-1761.
Five octavo volumes. Text in French. Illustrated with engraved
titles and a portrait of Boccaccio by Gravelot, and 110 plates, and
ninety-seven tail-pieces after Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin and Eisen,
engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Flipart, Legrand, Lemire, Lempereur,
etc. The majority of the work was designed by Gravelot, and this
remains arguably his finest effort. Bound in full contemporary calf
with later morocco red and green spine labels. Spines elaborately
gilt in compartments; boards with gilt rules and corner devices and
all edges gilt. The surface of the calf is flaked and the tips are
rubbed, else a bright, solid set. The engravings are bright and
sharp with only very minor foxing at the peripheries of a few
pages. Each volume with the label of bookseller Matthias Fontaine
and an engraved armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. An
unusually fresh set and a milestone in French eighteenth-century
engraving.Auction Info
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