The Nuns and the Gardener by [Aliquando Press] Giovanni Boccaccio - 2002.: A tale from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio / with wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates

[Dundas], Ontario, Canada:: Aliquando Press,, 2002.. Edition of 70. 28. x 17 cm.; 24 pages. Five wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates. Text adapted by William Rueter. Printed letterpress with Nephi Medieval type and Tell Text 5 display, with title lettering by the printer. Printed on Hahnemühle Archive paper.  Copies 1 to 10 signed by the artists, with an extra suite of signed prints enclosed in an olive folder and bound in quarter stained Tyvek with spine label. The boards covered in William Morris' 'Willow Boughs' fabric, with mustard cloth slipcase. Copies 11 to 70 bound in quarter stained Tyvek with spine label and yellow/green shibori paper-covered boards with grosgrain ribbon; with flax Canal paper portfolio. This is a standard copy. One of Boccaccio's most pertinent (and impertinent) stories from The Decameron: Nuns delighting in pleasures of the flesh. Will Rueter, The Aliquando Century: "On the way back from a printing conference, Wesley Bates and I made plans to collaborate on a series of three Boccaccio stories. .... Wesley's other commitments have precluded the completion of the originally conceived project.