THE WORKS OF DANTE ALIGHIERI 1910 BICKERS FINE TREE CALF BINDING, FLAXMAN ILLUSTRATIONS
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[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Translated by Henry Francis Cary. With 109 Illustrations by John Flaxman. London: Henry Frowde, 1910.
First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (195 x 130 x 40 mm.). Pp. xlv, 578. English text. Stunning binding of full tree calf, signed by Bickers and Son. Spine fully gilt ruled and tooled, morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment. Gilt frames to boards, the upper board with a gilt impressed armorial crest. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Half-title present. 109 illustrations by Flaxman, plus a portrait frontispiece. Printed 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: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the joints and covers very well-preserved. Interior largely fresh and clean with some light foxing mostly affecting the endpapers. Prize plate to front pastedown. An attractive copy.