[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. The Divine Comedy. Translated into English Verse by I. C. Wright. Illustrated with Engravings on Steel, after Designs by Flaxman. London: George Bell & Sons, 1900.
Hardcover. Reprinted from the Stereotype Plates. Full leather. Octavo (175 x 120 mm.), pp. [xxiv], 460. English text. Exquisitely bound in contemporary red calf, unsigned but clearly produced by a premiere bindery, with intricate gilt ruled and tooled covers, gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on upper board. Page edges and endpapers marbled. Portrait frontispiece and extra title with vignette plus 33 full-page engravings by Flaxman. Title-page with printer's device. Footnotes. Index to rear in double columns. Contents: Preface; The Spirit of Dante; Extracts from Dante's Prose Works; Memoir of Dante; Intro to the Inferno; The Inferno, Canto I - XXXIV. Intro to the Purgatorio; Purgatorio, Canto I - XXXIII; Intro to Paradiso; Paradiso, Canto I - XXXIII; Index. Condition: Binding tight and secure, the hinges intact, some minor rubbing to extremities. Contents immaculate. Without internal previous ownership markings.
