The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (Il Boccaccio) now first completely done into English...

Curiosa. Boccaccio (Giovanni)   Printed for Private Subscription and for Private Circulation Only,  1887  One of 250 numbered copies   Original white parchment, gilt Spine and covers somewhat soiled and marked and end-papers darkened, otherwise a nice copy  “The Stories which have been omitted in this Edition are those which can be perused in every cheap modern translation of the Decameron, while those which have been selected for publication ... are precisely the Tales which it has hitherto been the custom to censure, emasculate, or omit altogether ...” - Introductory Remarks. 

Price: £35