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SERMINI, Gentile. Ser meoccio ghiottone.

Modena. Tipografia Vincenzi, 1868. First edition.
8vo. 32pp. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled vellum, T.E.G. Extremities a trifle discoloured. Silk endpapers, Armorial bookplate of Lord Mexborough and later book-label of Louis Thompson Rowe to verso of FFEP.
An attractively bound copy of a previously unpublished novella, limited to 100 copies, by an obscure fifteenth century Sienese author, of whom little is known other than that around 1424 he composed a collection of forty novellas, largely risque and scandalous in tone.
£ 325.00 Antiquates Ref: 24182