| Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lawyers, students, artists, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, gamblers, police-and lovers, both faithful and faithless. |
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| The Limited Editions Club 1st Thus Hardcover edition, Date published 1930, Illustrated by T. M. Cleland | ||
| Two small folio volumes (9" x 11-3/4") bound in burnt sienna cloth with leather spine labels. Newly translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar with an introduction by Burton Rascoe. Designed and decorated by T. M. Cleland, limited to 1500 copies signed by the designer. |
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