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The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. London: Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625. [Bound with:] – The Decameron. London: Isaac Jaggard, 1620.
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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375)
The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. London: Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625. [Bound with:] – The Decameron. London: Isaac Jaggard, 1620.
First comprehensive English translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron, the second edition of volume I and the first edition of volume II, preserved in a contemporary English binding. No complementary edition of the second volume was published. Boccaccio's influence on early English drama would be difficult to underestimate. At least fifty-four English plays, including several works by Shakespeare, have plots derived from the Decameron. Three years after printing the first edition, Jaggard went on to print the First Folio of Shakespeare (1623). Grolier Wither to Prior 250 (first edition); Pforzheimer 72 and 71; STC 3173 and 3172.
2 volumes in one, folio (282 x 185mm). With the blanks A1 and 2N6 in volume I and [-]1 in volume II. Titles within differing woodcut borders, the border to volume I with a boar passant, the crest of the Sidney family, in top compartment, at the sides an Arcadian shepherd and an Amazon, at the foot a boar approaching a bush with the motto 'non tibi spiro' [McKerrow and Ferguson 212], the border to volume II composed of six woodcut medallions repeated as vignettes throughout both volumes. Woodcut initials and ornaments (two minor marginal tears in title, 2A4.5 in vol. I almost loose, occasional faint stains, a few tiny rustholes affecting some letters). Contemporary English calf, blind-ruled borders, initials ‘I B’ blindstamped to centre of upper and lower boards, titled in manuscript to spine and on fore-edge (slightly rubbed, more heavily at one corner and spine ends). Provenance: ‘I B’ (initials on binding) – Robert Pollard (17th-century inscription on verso of final leaf) – ‘E T’ (initials on front pastedown) – George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon, Gredington Library (1776–1855; inscription on title recording purchase from Iscoyd Park sale, 1843) – bookplate on front pastedown partly removed.
The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. London: Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625. [Bound with:] – The Decameron. London: Isaac Jaggard, 1620.
First comprehensive English translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron, the second edition of volume I and the first edition of volume II, preserved in a contemporary English binding. No complementary edition of the second volume was published. Boccaccio's influence on early English drama would be difficult to underestimate. At least fifty-four English plays, including several works by Shakespeare, have plots derived from the Decameron. Three years after printing the first edition, Jaggard went on to print the First Folio of Shakespeare (1623). Grolier Wither to Prior 250 (first edition); Pforzheimer 72 and 71; STC 3173 and 3172.
2 volumes in one, folio (282 x 185mm). With the blanks A1 and 2N6 in volume I and [-]1 in volume II. Titles within differing woodcut borders, the border to volume I with a boar passant, the crest of the Sidney family, in top compartment, at the sides an Arcadian shepherd and an Amazon, at the foot a boar approaching a bush with the motto 'non tibi spiro' [McKerrow and Ferguson 212], the border to volume II composed of six woodcut medallions repeated as vignettes throughout both volumes. Woodcut initials and ornaments (two minor marginal tears in title, 2A4.5 in vol. I almost loose, occasional faint stains, a few tiny rustholes affecting some letters). Contemporary English calf, blind-ruled borders, initials ‘I B’ blindstamped to centre of upper and lower boards, titled in manuscript to spine and on fore-edge (slightly rubbed, more heavily at one corner and spine ends). Provenance: ‘I B’ (initials on binding) – Robert Pollard (17th-century inscription on verso of final leaf) – ‘E T’ (initials on front pastedown) – George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon, Gredington Library (1776–1855; inscription on title recording purchase from Iscoyd Park sale, 1843) – bookplate on front pastedown partly removed.
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