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J.M. Rigg. The Decameron Of Giovanni Boccaccio, Volume II. Henry F. Bumpus, 1906.
Price: US$6.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards may have light wear, fading or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Giovanni Boccaccio (J. M. Rigg). The Decameron Volume II. Henry F. Bumpus, 1906.
Price: US$14.40 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1906. No Edition Remarks. 404 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Volume II. Light thumb marking, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have noticeable corner bumping and edgewear with moderate tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Rigg, J.M. The Decameron Of Giovanni Boccaccio , Vol 1. Henry F Bumpus, London, 1906.
Price: US$24.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Age spotting on the inside of the covers, general wear to covers but text and illustrations clean and bright.
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Rigg, J.M. The Decameron Of Giovanni Boccaccio , Vol 2. Henry F Bumpus, London, 1906.
Price: US$24.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: age spotting on the inside of the covers, all text and illustrations clean and bright
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Rigg, J.M. (trans). The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Volume 1). Henry F. Bumpus, 1906.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
J.M.Rigg. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Henry F.Bumpus, London, 1906.
Price: US$31.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Faithfully Translated" by J.M.Rigg with illustrations by Louis Chalon. Two volumes. Buckram. 332 pages and 404 pages. Untrimmed edges. Top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded illustrations. Minor shelf-wear and a little colour fading mainly to spines of each volume. . A weighty consignment of up to 2.5 kilos; it will attract some extra postage/shipping.
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Rigg, J.M. (trans). The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Volume 2). Henry F. Bumpus, 1906.
Price: US$32.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1350grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The covers are worn with edge splits on the spine ends as well as having soiling. The contents are tight and clean but for a college stamp on the front free end paper. 332pp. A digital photo can be made available.
Seller: G W Jackson, St.Marys, ON, Canada
J.M.Rigg. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Henry F.Bumpus, London, 1906.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Faithfully Translated" by J.M.Rigg with illustrations by Louis Chalon. Two volumes. Buckram. 332 pages and 404 pages. Untrimmed edges. Top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded illustrations. Minor shelf-wear and a little colour fading mainly to spine of Volume II. Heraldic bookplates to volume II. A weighty consignment of up to 2.5 kilos; it will attract some extra postage/shipping.
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOTE: Oversize, will require additional charges for international shipping, please inquire prior to ordering. 4to. Vol. I, xxi, 332 pages, vol. II, xiii, 404 pages. Original uniform three quarter dark brown morocco over marbled paper; gilt spine titles, 5 raised ribs to spine; top edge gilt; matching marbled endpapers; black & white frontispiece with tissue guard, black & white illustrations with tissue guards. Some scuffing to extremities; foxing to side and lower edges; minor foxing and age-toning throughout interior. Very good to very good plus copies. Lovely, solid example of this premium edition of the famous collection of novellas from the 14th century Italian author.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set with translation of pgs 252-253 laid in. Illustrated with 12 plates with tissue guards. Very good, purple cloth with gilt design on front covers, gilt titles on spines, gilt page tops, spines are faded, deckle-edge pages, bindings are tight, hinges are uncracked, pages are clean and white.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xxii, 332; xx, 404 pp., Rebound in blue, quarter morocco` with marbled boards and top edge gilt. Boards fresh and bright. Minor scattered spotting throughout. Illustrated with 12 tissue guarded photogravure plates. Very good to near fine copy. 26.5 by 19.5 cm 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$113.90 + shipping
Description: 2 Vols. 4to. pp. xxi, 332; xiii, [3], 404. 12 photogravures (incl. Vol. I frontis.) & few b/w text illus. top edge gilt, others uncut. cloth (spine dull & extremities & joints bit rubbed).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, quarto. Twelve engraved plates. Full contemporary burgundy straight-grained morocco. Covers and spines decoratively paneled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Gilt inner dentelles, red silk endleaves. Joints corners lightly rubbed, edges foxed, occasional foxing to text. A very good set in an attractive, unsigned binding.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Description: A finely bound copy of Rigg's edition, the "most long lived of the early 20th-century versions" (Armstrong, p. 270). First published in 1903, in 1930 the translation was used for the Everyman's Library series, and it remained the canonical British Decameron for the next half century. Rigg's translation leaves the most explicit part of the erotic story cycle in Italian, the effects of which Armstrong argues "have been far-reaching for the reputation of Boccaccio in the British Isles at least. the editorial decision to demarcate the censorship in this way has no doubt contributed to the notorious reputation of this book as a repository of obscenity" (ibid., p. 272). The Chalon plates originally appeared as a set of 20 alongside John Payne's translation of 1893; for Rigg's edition the publishers cut the number to the 12 least explicit plates. It also features woodcut reproductions in the introduction after the first illustrated Decameron, published in Venice in 1492. Guyda Armstrong, The English Boccaccio: A History in Books, 2013. 2 volumes, octavo (256 x 181 mm). Contemporary red straight grained morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers bordered in gilt with green onlay to corners, gilt inner dentelles, red silk endpapers, top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Photogravure frontispiece to vol. I, 11 similar plates, all after oil paintings by Louis Chalon, woodcut reproductions to text, title page printed in red and black. Minor skinning to edges of endpapers, scattered foxing to contents. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom