Word: decameron
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...manuscripts in the collection, among which are Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1632, a letter from Dickens to Thackeray and the latter's reply, Robert Louis Stevenson's autobiography in handwriting, and manuscripts of Robert Burns, Illuminated books of the fifteenth century, and the first edition of the Decameron novels of Boccaccio are also a part of the collection...
...Athenoeum is shocked because one of the societies at Williams has added Boccaccio's Decameron to its library...
Lost. - Will the person who took by mistake from Memorial Hall a handsomely bound copy of "Boccaccio's Decameron," Vol. I., with a paper cover over it, please return the same immediately to W. Curtis, 28 Stoughton...
...blessing on you, my son," quoth he. "See here, - most interesting. Decameron, Heptameron, Balzac, Brantome, Paul de Kock, Zola, - all, except the Bible; it is enough to know the light, - you want not the lamp...
...often put to some trouble and expense to obtain the books elsewhere than at the Library. We cannot conceive how any sensible person could object to a student's using some of the books that are now "caged" in the Library. When such books as the much-quoted "Decameron" and Swinburne's beautiful poems are withdrawn from circulation, it is time to protest...