[Dante]. Gustave Doré, illus. Dante Aligheri.
[The Divine Comedy]: The Vision of Hell. The Vision of Purgatory. The Vision of Paradise. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1904
Together Six quarto volumes, 340 x 268 mm. Each volume has a watercolor frontispiece signed by noted artist Walter Saterlee (1843-1908) after Gustave Doré. Full red morocco gilt extra with dark green, light green, white, orange and blue onlays; front doublure with a central brass medallion surrounded by an elaborate design of multi-color onlays, rear doublures in colored “Cuir-ciselé”, green watered silk endleaves, t.e.g., others uncut. Signed on front inner dentelle “La Belle Sauvage Bindery”.
The “Autograph Edition”, number 35 of fifty-five copies signed by Sir Henry Irving, the dedicatee. Profusely illustrated by Gustave Doré. Housed in a finely crafted amateur slipcase of embroidered green silk.
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