[Original Walter Tiemann lettering for Das Dekameron]

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The original designer’s hand-drawn layouts for a new edition of Boccaccio. In 1906, the Leipzig publishers Breitkopf Härtel had published a new German edition of Giovanni di Boccaccio’s great collection of short stories, the Decameron. This edition featured beautiful design elements by celebrated German type desi

• Year: 1906

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