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 Author Name: Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321).
Title: LA DIVINA COMMEDIA.
Book Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Milan: Alfieri and Lacroix, 1902.
Seller ID: 96
Oblong 8vo. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Pages not numbered. Illustrated title page and illustrated capitals throughout. Includes three full-page color illustrations and smaller color illustrations throughout. In the style of an illuminated manuscript printed on heavy cardstock. Bound in vellum decorated with a mounted embossed leather medallion with portrait of Dante, calligraphic titles stamped in black, red, and blue. Leather tie closures. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Vellum cracking at top of joint. Front hinge tender. Covers lightly bumped, soiled and worn. Some mild toning and soiling throughout. Small bookplate of Chawton House Library inside front cover. (Chawton House was a manor house once owned by Jane Austen's brother and the library now houses the Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600-1830). Scarce.
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