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BANDELLO, MATTEO. La Prima[-Quarta] Parte delle Novelle. 4 volumes. 4to, late 19th-/early 20th-century light brown morocco in the style of Douglas Cockerell, spines slightly faded and scuffed; scattered foxing. Bookplates of Charles Henry St. John Hornby, founder of the Ashendene Press, with occasional pencil marginalia in his hand. London: S. Harding, 1740
Originally published in 1554-73, "the largest and most influential of the novella collections of the sixteenth century" (Wilkins), and in various translations drawn upon by Shakespeare, Webster, Massinger, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Gamba 1227; Wilkins, page 232-34.
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