La Divina Commedia. Or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English.
Book Description
                        4to. Limited edition. #209 of 1475 copies. Original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top edge gilt ‘on the rough’, others untrimmed. Double page illustrations from Botticelli’s drawings in Berlin and Rome. Front board slightly warped by the vellum shrinking. Spine partially faded. A few light marks to both boards and slight rubbing to the extremities. Contents clean and fresh. Near fine.
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            The Italian text edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H. F. Cary and 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli. A lovely copy with much less warping and fading than is often the case. The Cary translation, familiar to the Romantic poets, in parallel with Dante’s original verse and beautifully combined with Botticelli’s drawings.
                        
                                    
                        Author
                        Alighieri, Dante
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1928
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        London, The Nonesuch Press
                    
                    
                    
                    
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