Thursday, July 3, 2014

1893 PURGATORY AND PARADISE BY DANTE ALIGHIERI ~ ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE

1893

PURGATORY AND PARADISE
BY DANTE ALIGHIERI

ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ HANDSOME GILDED FINE BINDING ~ PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH STUNNING FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ***

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893.

• measures about 9.25'' x 6.5''
• handsome decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• ornate embossed gold gilt, black, and gray stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• floral patterned endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with 60 beautiful full-page plates by Doré




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