Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. Del MDXXVII.
4^o. (8-1/2 × 6-1/4). O. 1.
On the verso of the facsimile titlepage of 1527 occurs the imprint
"Londra per Tommaso Edlin. MDCCXXV." With engraved portrait and
frontispiece. The reprint known as Consul Smith's edition.
The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conuersation. Framed in Ten
Dayes, of an hundred curious Pieces, by seuen Honourable Ladies, and
three Noble Gentlemen. Preserued to Posterity by the Renowned Iohn
Boccacio, the first Refiner of Italian prose: And now translated into
English. _Printed by Isaac Iaggard, for Mathew Lownes,_ 1625.
F^o. (11-1/8 × 7-1/8). F. 9. 1.
Title within ornamental border originally used in 1593 for Sidney's
'Arcadia'. Collation: A-V^62A^82B-2N^6, folios numbered. 2N 6
blank. Wanting A 1 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to Philip Herbert,
Earl of Montgomery. Table of contents in double columns. Woodcuts
in text.