[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Translated by Henry Francis Cary. With 109 Illustrations by John Flaxman. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, 1921.
First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (190 x 130 x 35 mm.), pp. xlv, 578. English text. Stunning binding of full tree calf by Riviere & Son (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet); spine fully gilt with morocco lettering-piece in second compartment; gilt frames to boards and edges; gilt inner dentelles; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; title-page device; wonderful illustrations throughout after John Flaxman; footnotes; rear index in double columns. Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Life of Dante; Chronological View of the Age of Dante; Hell, Canto I--XXXIV; Purgatory, Canto I--XXXIII; Paradise, Canto I--XXXIII; Notes; Index. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the boards and contents near immaculate, with just a few trivial fox spots to endleaves. Without previous ownership markings. A remarkable copy. Scarce thus.
