[DANTE ALIGHIERI]. The Works. London: J. M. Dent, 1910-1919.
Hardcover. Three parts in one volume. The Temple Classics, edited by Israel Gollancz, M.A, consisting of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Leather-bound. Thick duodecimo (160 x 100 x 60 mm.), pp. 402; 442; 419. Period-style strap binding in full calf with beveled edges, banding and straps plus titles and decoration in blind and gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Each part with a frontispiece and decorative title-page printed in red and black, with ornamental border. Engraved illustrations throughout. Shoulder-notes. Sections with Notes and Chronology, plus Indexes to maps, plates and tables. Printed by Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh. Edited by Mr H. Oelsner, M.A., Ph.D. Contents: part I, Inferno, Canto I-XXXIV; part II, Purgatorio, Canto I-XXXIII; Part III, Paradiso, Canto I-XXXIII. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers vey well preserved with very light rubbing to extremities and mild mottling. The textblock is excellent and clean with some spotting to fore edge. Neatly inked inscription to fep dated 1921.
