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L'opera de misser Giouanni Boccaccio De mulieribus claris.

[1 blank], [154] unnumbered, [1 blank] leaves: illustrations (woodcuts); 21 cm (4to). Translated by Vincenzo Bagli. Engraved vignette (woodcut) on title page. "The title-cut (94 x 112 mm.) represents a Triumph of Famous Women with Lucretia as its heroine. For the portraits of individual women not only are the same figures made to do duty more than once — a nude holding an apple serves both for Eve and Venus — but a further economy was effected by cutting out a square in the blocks and inserting the same heads on different bodies or vice versa. It is surprising to find such tricks played in a fairly well printed book of this class"--Cf. Perrins and Warner, 1914.

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