CA. 1885 PURGATORY AND PARADISE BY DANTE ALIGHIERI ~ ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE ~ RARE ANTIQUE VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1885

PURGATORY AND PARADISE
BY DANTE ALIGHIERI

ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ MASSIVE FOLIO ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ~ VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ***
Purgatory and Paradise. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. from the Original of Dante Alighieri and Illustrated with the Designs of M. Gustave Doré. New Edition. With Critical and Explanatory Notes.

New York, London, and Paris: Cassell & Company, no date, circa 1885.

• measures about 13.25'' x 10.25''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• green patterned endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• profusely illustrated with full-page engravings by Gustave Doré