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BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. A Treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable Princes and Princesseswith other Nobles, through mutabilitie and change of unstedfast Fortune together with thier most detestable & wicked vices [with The daunce of Machabree]. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; 12 text woodcuts. [8], 224 leaves. Printed in black letter. Folio, 281x194 mm, early 19th-century tan calf gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; owners' notes on front flyleaves, occasional marginal dampstaining, restoration in blank margins of N1 and last 5 leaves, stains on T3. Bookplates of Henry Cunliffe and Edward W. Bodman. London: Richard Tottell, (1554)
Third edition of the 1494 verse paraphrase by John Lydgate of Boccaccio's moralistic tales of the misfortunes of famous people, made from the 1476 French version by Laurence de Premierfait. The Latin original text was first printed circa 1474-75. Appended is the first edition of Lydgate's The daunce of Machabree, apparently the earliest printed version of the Dance of Death in English. Pforzheimer 74; STC/Luborsky & Ingram 3177.
