Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - book 2, p.112r detail

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Date:1620

Description:Fine printing in Shakespeare's time.

The engravings in Jaggard’s edition of Boccaccio do not illustrate the individual stories, but were used to decorate title page and then, possibly to save the cost of extra illustrations, were repeated throughout the text.

Full Title: Giovanni Boccaccio, The The Decameron..., translated by J. Florio, London, Printed by Isaac Jaggard, 1620.
Bound with: Giovanni Boccaccio, The modell of witt, mirth, eloquence and conversation, translated by J. Florio, London, Printed by I. Jaggard for M. Lowndes, 1625.


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