[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. The Vision or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise (The Divine Comedy). Translated by Henry Francis Cary and Illustrated With 450 Original Drawings Specially Executed for The Divine Comedy, and 429 Other Reproductions of Works of Art of the Old Masters, Views, etc., With a Life of Dante, Chronological Survey of His Age and a Full Index. Florence: G. Fattorusso, n.d. [ca.1930].
'Florentine Edition'. Leather-bound. Softcover. Quarto (270 x 190 x 35 mm.), pp. xxxii, 511, (1). English text. Exquisitely bound in contemporary full calf over limp boards, the covers beautifully and elaborately embossed in gilt, woven-braided cover edges, all page edges stained dark, repeat-patterned endpapers, half-title present, title-page printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout [some colour]. Printed at the Barbera Press, Alfani & Venturi Prop. Florence, Italy. Contents: Preface; Life of Dante; Chronological Table of Events in Dante's Life; The Vision - Hell, Canto I-XXXIV, Purgatory, Canto I-XXXIII, Paradise, Canto I-XXXIII; List of Artist; Index of Proper Names. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, very minor wear to extremities, the covers largely beautifully preserved. Contents near immaculate with previous owner name neatly inked to half-title. A scarce edition in a marvelous binding.
