Author:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published:
Caragoça de Aragon : por industria y expensas de Paulo Hurus, .xxiii. dias del mes de Octubre ... Mil quatrocientos nouenta y quatro, [24 October 1494].
Description:
[1], II-CIX (with mistakes) leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding:
18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; marbled edges.
Provenance:
Thomas Crofts (1722-1781), booklabel with bust of Antoninus and initials TC (front pastedown), Bibliotheca Croftsiana sale, Paterson's, 7 April 1783, lot 4013 to: Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription, 1 May 1783 (front endleaf 2 recto), purchased at Crofts's sale for £2.12.6, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 436 for £81; unidentified shelfmark, in pencil: L.2.15 (front endleaf 1 verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 198, 8/5/96 and price code: wmm/-/- +com (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.