The Vision of Hell; The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise.

The Vision of Hell; The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise.

London, Paris & New York:

Cassell and Company,

[1883]

Two volumes bound in one. Thick folio (11 by 13 inches), contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, renewed black morocco spine label, renewed cloth covers, marbled edges.

Splendid later edition of one of Doré's most famous illustrated works, the celebrated English translation of Dante by Henry Francis Cary, with frontispiece portrait of Dante and 135 full-page wood-engravings, showing the torments of Hell "with minute and sometimes shocking fidelity." Handsomely bound.

From the Collection of Rick Davis

(DORÉ, Gustave) DANTE.

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