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Les contes de Boccace: Decameron / Traduit de l’italien par Antoine Le Maçon, illustrations de Brunelleschi / 2 vol. — Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1934.

Vol. 1:

Front cover and title page: LES CONTES | DE BOCCACE | ☙ DECAMERON ❧ | TRADUIT DE L’ITALIEN | PAR | ANTOINE LE MAÇON | LES CINQ | PREMIÈRES JOURNÉES | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D’AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS ||

Pagination: [6] 1-342 [343-4] [10], 16 colour plates and 70 b/w head- and tailpieces after Umberto Brunelleschi.

Vol. 2:

Front cover and title page: LES CONTES | DE BOCCACE | ☙ DECAMERON ❧ | TRADUIT DE L’ITALIEN | PAR | ANTOINE LE MAÇON | LES CINQ | DERNIÈRES JOURNÉES | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D’AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS ||

Pagination: [6] 1-281 [282] [10], 16 colour plates and 68 b/w head- and tailpieces after Umberto Brunelleschi.

Edition: Limited to 2,500 copies, of which this is № 1. Edition supplemented with two full extra sets of plates, 32 in black and white, and 32 in colour. Printed on June 25, 1934.

Binding: 26.5 x 20.5 cm; cream flapped wrappers (French softcover) with green and black lettering and vignettes to front cover and spine, publisher’s device on the back; uncut copy.

Paper: Vélin de Navarre (wove paper), size: 260 x 200 mm.

Contributors:

Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian, 1313 – 1375) – author.

Antoine Le Maçon (French, c. 1500 – 1559) – translator.

Umberto Brunelleschi (Italian, 1879 – 1949) – artist.

Malexis, Louis (French, 20 century) – mise en page.

Coulouma, Robert (French, 1887 – 1976), Imprimerie Coulouma (Argenteuil) – printer, H. Barthélemy – director.

Dantan, A. – engraver (probably from the family of Edouard Joseph Dantan (French, 1848 – 1897)

Charpentier, E. – colour au pochoir.

Compare this copy with a small one-volume reprint of 1941: [LIB-2773.2021].

Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique.

SKU: LIB-2813.2021 Categories: , ,

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