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About this Item

Title

  • Le Decameron de Jean Boccace.

Names

  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
  • Villani, Filippo, -1405?
  • Le Maçon, Antoine-Jean, active 16th century.
  • Prault, Laurent François, 1712-1780, publisher, attributed name.
  • Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, illustrator.
  • Aliamet, Jacques, 1726-1788, engraver.
  • Lempereur, Louis Simon, 1728-1807, engraver.
  • Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner.
  • Schiff, Mortimer L., former owner.
  • Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1775 or 1776-1856, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Londres [i.e. Paris : Prault], 1757-1761.

Headings

  • -  France--Paris

Notes

  • -  Engraved t.p.; head and tail pieces.
  • -  Engravings, chiefly after the drawings of Hubert François Bourguignon, called Gravelot, by J. Aliamet, L.S. Lempereur, and other eighteenth century engravers.
  • -  Translated from the Italian by A.J. Le Maçon; first edition of this translation, 1545.
  • -  "Vie de Jean Bocace...traduite de l'italien de Philippe-Mattieu Villani": v. 1, p.[i]-viii.
  • -  English Short Title Catalogue, T143783
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1647
  • -  LC copy from the collection of G. V. Yudin, with his bookplate.
  • -  LAC knj 2019-11-04 update (2 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-03-18 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 5 v. : plates, port. ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PQ4272.F5 A34 1757
  • PQ4272.F5 A34 1757 Copy 2 Rosenwald Coll. Contemporary citron morocco binding. Book-plates of E. V. Utterson, Robert Hoe and Mortimer L. Schiff.
  • PQ4272.F5 A34 1757 Copy 3 17.5 cm. Yudin Collection. Imperfect: v.2 wanting; replaced by v.3-4 (in 1 v.) of the London (Paris) 1779 ed. Substituted volumes lack title-pages (v.3 lacks half-title also).

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 17005379

OCLC Number

  • 20176401

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Chicago citation style:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, Filippo Villani, Antoine-Jean Le Maçon, Laurent François Prault, Hubert François Gravelot, Jacques Aliamet, Louis Simon Lempereur, et al. Le Decameron de Jean Boccace. [Londres i.e. Paris: Prault, to 1761, 1757] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/17005379/.

APA citation style:

Boccaccio, G., Villani, F., Le Maçon, A., Prault, L. F., Gravelot, H. F., Aliamet, J. [...] Yudin Collection. (1757) Le Decameron de Jean Boccace. [Londres i.e. Paris: Prault, to 1761] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/17005379/.

MLA citation style:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, et al. Le Decameron de Jean Boccace. [Londres i.e. Paris: Prault, to 1761, 1757] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/17005379/>.