The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri translated by The Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Dore Popular Edition 1892 with critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante, and Chronology
Dante Alighieri; Cary, The Rev. Henry Francis; Dore, Gustave
$495.00
Place Published: London
Edition: Popular Edition
Date Published: 1892
Illustrator: b&w plates
Size: 8vo
Dante’s Inferno in the Francis Cary translation, and with the illustrations of Gustave Dore – being 75 full-page b&w drawings and engravings (including a frontispiece portrait of Dante with tissue-guard); Cary also provides a Life of Dante, Chronology, and footnotes; green boards with gilt titling, and ornate gilt device with coloured inlays to front, gilt titling to spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers; gift-inscription and bookplate to front endpaper, fo’s name-stamp to prelims, med-heavy foxing to prelims (heavy to tissue-guard), scattered foxing throughout (light-med), o.w. Good; boards a little rubbed, with some worn patches, coloured inlays dulled, gilt titling dulled to spine, mild edgewear to head and tail of spine.