Dante Alighieri

The Doré Dante

Cassell and Company

1904

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A finely bound edition of The Doré Dante: Divine Commedia.

  • Sold as a set of 6 volumes.
  • Dante Alighieri (Italian).
  • The Doré Dante: Divine Commedia.
  • London: Cassell and Company, 1904.
  • Watercolor frontispiece by William Satterlee after the famous Gustave Doré designs, with 136 full-page wood-engraved plates on Japan paper.
  • Includes Vision of Hell: 2 volumes,Vision of Purgatory, 2 volumes, Vision of Paradise, 2 volumes.
  • Signed by actor Sir Henry Irving.
  • This edition is limited to 55 sets, of which this is 14.
  • Bound by La Belle Sauvage in full morocco with elaborate gilt-tooling on the raised band spines, covers and doublures, with morocco onlaid masks of Comedy and Tragedy, grape and floral inlays in an Art Nouveau style, upper doublures of each volume with copper medallions of Dante, red moiré silk endpapers, top edges gilt.

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Religion, Poetry, Illustrated, Literature, European Literature and History, Fine bindings, Sets, Autographed and Signed Material

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