![]() ![]() One of the world’s great masterpieces and a foundational text of Italian literature. With the bookplates of Thomas Philip, 2nd Earl de Grey, who was a successful politician, member of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. A few pages lightly foxed, but on the whole an excellent set. Three 8vo volumes (pages 215 x 133 mm), collating: vi,, 408, 56,, 57-62, 65-384 (complete), 420pp., engraved frontispiece portrait plate of Dante by Thomas Stothard in vol.1, half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, complete (despite the funny numbering sequence in volume 2). A lovely set of the first complete translation into English of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Full contemporary tree calf, spines expertly rebacked in the style of the original, deep red morocco spine lables, gilt borders and spine panels, marbled end papers. The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri, Consisting of the Inferno - Purgatorio - and Paradiso. ![]()
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