Nella Giornata I si parla “di quello che più aggrada a ciascheduno”, nella II “di chi, da diverse cose infestato sia, oltre alla sua speranza, riuscito a lieto fine”, nella III “di chi alcuna cosa molto da lui desiderata con industria acquistasse, o la perduta ricoverasse”… e così via. L’opera è quindi suddivisa in “Giornate” e nel Proemio l’autore spiega il carattere del suo libro.

Hours of business: Mon-Fri 10 to 6 Number 46 is at the northern end of Shepherd Market, formerly the location of Shepherds bindery, a five minute walk from Green Park tube station (Jubilee, Victoria and Piccadilly lines) and only slightly more from Bond Street station.Il Decameron è una raccolta di cento novelle, raccontate in dieci giorni da sette donne e tre uomini, allontanatisi da Firenze per sfuggire alla peste che contagiò la città nel 1348. We also display a selection of stock at our Mayfair shop: 46 Curzon Street Number 48 is on the south side of Bedford Square, a five minute walk from Totten ham Court Road or Goodge Street underground stations and a ten minute walk from Russell Square. Great Britain Hours of business: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 5

Our primary address is our Bloomsbury shop: Stock Code: 121137 Members of: Antiquarian Booksellers Association Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association International League of Antiquarian Booksellers His over twenty-five year professional career in design bookbinding has centered on the exploration, development and use of unexpected binding materials, visual humor, and spontaneous expression, while working within the classical framework of the European binding form.' He began his bookbinding career after taking degrees in painting and sculpture from San Jose State College in California, and studying binding privately with Barbara Hiller in San Francisco, and Pierre Aufschneider and Roger Arnoult in Paris. Like scarlet underwear to be seen only by invitation, the barely adorned covers give no hint of the irridescent doublures inside.He says of himself - 'Donald Glaister is a book artist now living and working on Vashon Island, Washington. This he achieved: the binding complements the austerity of the book to a very high degree, and in fact could be said to complete it.

Chelsea, The Ashendene Press.ĭonald Glaister bound this to commission with the remit that the binding should fit the aesthetic restraint of the book - beauty from simplicity. Folio, in a very handsome, suitably restrained binding by Donald Glaister, signed and dated 1987, of full black morocco, two borders in blind, silver lettering on spine with spectacular doublures in his trademark sanded aluminium sheeting, producing metallic iridescent patterns, suede free endpapers.

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