Tales from Boccaccio / Englished from the French of Jean de La Fontaine ; illustrated by Richard Floethe.

Author/Creator:

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695, author.

Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, [1947]

Format/Description:

Book
124 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subjects:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone -- Adaptations.
Italian literature -- Translations into English.

Form/Genre:

Private press books (Printing)
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Place of Publication:

United States New York (State) Mount Vernon (Westchester County).

Notes:

Freely translated from La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers.
"Copyright 1947 by the Peter Pauper Press"--verso of title page.
In slipcase.
"The verses that you have just read Were printed on our own press bed, In types designed by Baskerville -- Old types -- but quite delightful still ; The paper, as you will remark, Has our own grain and watermark; And if you're sure you'll not be vexed, We will confess we've changed the text: --It's much improved, if we think right -- And all is done for your delight.--Colophon.

Local notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1947

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 558 (page 154)

Contributor:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Floethe, Richard, illustrator.
Peter Pauper Press, printer publisher.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Related Work:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.

OCLC:

1964881

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