Title: [Divine Comedy] Author: Dante Alighieri Place: San Francisco Publisher: John Henry Nash Date: 1929 Description: 4 volumes. Includes: Inferno: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence Commonly Called the Divine Comedy. A Line-for-Line Translation in the Rime-Form of the Original by Melville Best Anderson. * Purgatorio... * Paradiso... * The Florence of Dante Alighieri: The Dante of All the World by Melville Best Anderson. Together, 4 volumes. 13¾9, original full vellum, spines ruled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. No. 134 of 250 copies. Nash's splendid printing of the Divine Comedy, perhaps the most sought-after work from his press. William Everson called this one of "the two great typographical edifices of West Coast printing." Lot Amendments Condition: Some discoloration to vellum, as often occurs, else near fine. Item number: 172056
Title: [Divine Comedy] Author: Dante Alighieri Place: San Francisco Publisher: John Henry Nash Date: 1929 Description: 4 volumes. Includes: Inferno: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence Commonly Called the Divine Comedy. A Line-for-Line Translation in the Rime-Form of the Original by Melville Best Anderson. * Purgatorio... * Paradiso... * The Florence of Dante Alighieri: The Dante of All the World by Melville Best Anderson. Together, 4 volumes. 13¾9, original full vellum, spines ruled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. No. 134 of 250 copies. Nash's splendid printing of the Divine Comedy, perhaps the most sought-after work from his press. William Everson called this one of "the two great typographical edifices of West Coast printing." Lot Amendments Condition: Some discoloration to vellum, as often occurs, else near fine. Item number: 172056
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