- Seller Inventory #: kb006810
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Albert & Charles Boni
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1925
- Keywords: n|n|FICTION::Classics
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Fine paper edition" 555 pp; binding a bit shaken; corners bumped, heavy rubbing to boards & spine; Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lawyers, students, artists, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, gamblers, police