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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [27 Jan. 1494]
Call number: 34001
Creator: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Quaritch, catalogue 369:140, June 1922. Contemporary ms. annotations and pen trials in Latin. Last page is densely written in several hands with pen trials, verses, and names of William Ligon, Cartewryghte, and William Reybole. Bookplate of John Phillips, Edstone. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Phillips Esqr., Edstone. On rear paste-down, in pencil, collation note by Talbot for Quaritch, dated 21 Jan. 1922.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

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