Giovanni Boccaccio; Bartholomew Young [trans.]; K. H. Josling [ed.]. Amorous Fiammetta. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$452.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A signed presentation copy of this beautifully illustrated edition of Boccaccio's novel, signed by both the editor and publisher. Limited to five-hundred and fifty copies, with this copy being out of series.A lovely copy of Boccaccio's novel about a Neapolitan noblewoman's passion for a Florentine merchant, a work categorised as the first 'psychological novel' in Western literature due to its first person narration.Illustrated with thirty colour plates and decorations by M. Leone. Collated, complete.A signed presentation copy of this work, with the inscription 'to Jodie Carp from The Mandrake Press, P. R. Stephensen, London 1929' to the front free endpaper.Stephensen founded the publisher of this work, the Mandrake Press, in the year that this work was published. Stephensen was a political activist, and also co-founded the fascist Australia First movement.With the further inscription of K. H. Josling, the editor of this work, also to the front pastedown.With the illustrated bookplate of K. W. C. Down to the front pastedown.A delightfully illustrated work. In the publisher's original dyed paper vellum binding, with yapp edges. Fading to back strip and board perimeters, with discolouration to fore edge and tail of front board. Bookplate to front pastedown, inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom