BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. Il Decamerone. 116 engraved plates and 97 culs-de-lampe, after Gravelot, Boucher, Eisen, and Cochin. 5 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/2 brown morocco, lightly scuffed. "Londra" [i. e., Paris], 1757
"One of the masterpieces of the illustrated book" (Ray), and one of the supreme achievements of Gravelot, who designed the majority of the plates and all the tailpieces. Cohen-de Ricci 160; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 15.
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