[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Translated by Henry Francis Cary. With a Life of Dante, Chronological View of his age, Additional Notes and Index. Illustrated wit Twelve Engravings from Designs by John Flaxman. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1852.
Reprinted from the last corrected London edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Small octavo (170 x 110 x 42 mm.), pp. 587. English text. Stunning binding of full morocco; spine fully gilt; gilt frames to boards and edges; all page edges gilt; plain endpapers; 12 engraved illustrations by Flaxman, including a portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; footnotes; rear index in double columns. Contents: Preface; Life of Dante; Chronological View of the Age of Dante; Hell, Canto I--XXXIV; Purgatory, Canto I--XXXIII; Paradise, Canto I--XXXIII; Index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the joints and covers very well-preserved. Interior with some light scattered foxing mostly affecting the illustrated plates. Without previous ownership markings.
