In the original dust jacket. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 VOLUMES, 293 + 350pp, red cloth, gilt lettering, Dent, 1955. * A masterpiece of classical early Italian prose (14th-century) made up of 100 entertaining tales, told over ten days by a group of seven young women and three young men who are sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to avoid the Black Death plague.