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