Vol. 1:

Title page (in red and black): CONTES | ET | NOUVELLES | DE | BOCACE | FLORENTIN. | Traduction Libre, | Accommodée au gout de ce temps, & en- | richie de FIGURES en TAILLE- | DOUCE gravées par Mr. Romain | de Hooge. | TOME PREMIER. | {device} | A AMSTERDAM, | Chez GEORGE GALLET. | — | M. DC. XCIX. ||

Collation: 2 binder’s blank leaves, etched frontispiece or title, t.p. in red and black, *⁸ **⁴ (starting at *₃, frontis. within collation of lacking one leaf) A—Y⁸ Z⁷, no final blank; 44 in-text half-page vignettes and one tipped-in additional plate (p. 212) in novella XXV (day 3, story 6: “Ricciardo Minutolo loves the wife of Filippello Fighinolfi, and knowing her to be jealous, makes her believe that his own wife is to meet Filippello at a Turkish bathhouse on an ensuing day; whereby she is induced to go thither, where, thinking to have been with her husband, she discovers that she has tarried with Ricciardo”), showing the ending of the story (45 illustrations total)

Pagination: 12 unpaginated leaves [i-xxiv], pg. starts at A₁, [1] 2-366.

Vol. 2:

Title-page: same as in vol. 1 but all in black and TOME SECOND.

Collation: A-2D⁸ 2E⁴, 56 in-text half-page vignettes.

Pagination: [1,2] (t.p.), 3-427 (text) [13] (table, last page blank).

Edition 1^st edition, 2^nd printing, edition of 1699 considered by most a re-issue of the 1697 edition. Description in Auction Sale Van Gendt, 1977, no. 1108: “The first, which has exactly the same collation was published by Gallet in 1697. It seems possible that the 1699 edition is, in fact, of the same issue, and that only the first quires of both volumes, which include the title pages were replaced by new ones with the new date, to make the book look more up to date. – The edition of 1702, also published by Gallet has “seconde édition”, which, we think, sustains our theory.”

Binding: Two volumes uniformly bound by Chambolle-Duru in red crushed morocco, ruled gilt with triple-fillet, gilt dentelle inside, raised bands, gilt in compartments, AEG, marbled endpapers; to FEP verso in vol. 1 pasted a clipping, and in both volumes – bookplate “EX LIBRIS HELGE LOEWENBERG DOMP”.

Provenance: Helge Loewenberg-Domp (Jewish-German, 1915 – 2021)

Catalogue raisonnè: Landwehr (1970): № 88, p. 193 [LIB-2547.2020].

Contributors:

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

Romeyn de Hooghe (Dutch, 1645 – 1708) – artist, etcher.

Chambolle-Duru; René Victor Chambolle (French, 1834 – 1898), Hippolyte Duru (French, 1803 – 1884) – binder.

George Gallet (Dutch, 17^th-18^th century) – printer, publisher.