DANTE'S PURGATORY AND PARADISE - With Illustrations by Gustave Dore
Book Details + Condition: Cassell & Company (New York, London and Paris). Circa 1885 edition of Dante's PURGATORY & PARADISE (no date provided), with illustrations by Gustave Dore. Translated from the original Dante Alighieri by Henry Francis Cary. With critical and explanatory notes. Folio; measures 13" x 10.5". Weighs nearly 7 pounds. Beautiful edition, with elaborate gilt-decorated full leather boards and all page edges gilt. Tight binding; rubbed leather corners and edges; light shelf wear to boards; binding tape has been added to spine; chipping to edge of front endpaper; text is clean and unmarked save small stamp on first blank page and owner's name on title page; gilt remains bright. Please see our other listing for Dante's INFERNO, from the same year and publisher.
