Commonwealth v. McCance

This is an indictment under St. 1890, c. 70. The defendant is charged with “ knowingly, unlawfully, feloniously, wickedly, and scandalously ” selling “to one Jefferson H. Parker a certain book, then and there called ‘ The Decameron of Boccaccio,’ and which said book, upon the title-page thereof, was then and there of the tenor following, that is to say, ‘ The Decameron; or Ten Days’ Entertainment of Boccaccio. A revised translation by W. K. Kelly, with portrait and ten illustrations, drawn and engraved by Leopold Flameng. Published for the Trade,’—and which said book then and there contained,…