
Title: The Decameron, or Ten day's entertainment of Boccaccio, 1861
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio; Walter Keating Kelly
Publisher: London, H.G. Bohn
Condition: Very Good
A revised translation of Boccaccio’s collection of novellas, known as The Decameron. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men while sheltered outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death.
One finely bound volume in 12mo, XII+545 pages
On note of condition, this volume is in very good shape, with light rubbing and wear to the boards. There is virtually no foxing or staining throughout.