Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Library of William Andrews Clark, Jr., Vol. 4: 1519-1700
Illustrations: Besides the two woodcut title-pages, throughout the text are distributed nu merous reproductions ofthe woodcuts on the title page, and many woodcut initial letters and a few head and tail - pieces. This is the first complete edition ofthe Decameron in English, but portions ofit had been translated into verse by different persons at an earlier period.the translation was done anonymously, and the intro ductory matter gives no clue to the translator's identity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
