The Dore Dante: The Vision of Hell; Volume 1 & Volume 2
by Dante Alighieri; Henry Francis Cary and Gustave Dore
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ (both volumes have light aging and soiling to boards, Volume 2 has heavy chipping along board edges, pages and plates ligh
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London/ Paris/New York: Cassell and Company, 1904. Hardcover. Good+ (both volumes have light aging and soiling to boards, Volume 2 has heavy chipping along board edges, pages and plates lightly age toned but otherwise clear). Two volumes bound in half white vellum and green paper boards, black illustration on front covers, black title blocks with gilt lettering on spines, color illustrated end papers. Volume 1 has 2 bw illustrated frontispieces with tissue guard sheets, XXIV, 82 pp, XXXIX plates with guard sheets. Volume 2 has a bw frontispiece with tissue guard sheet, paged 83-183, plates numbered XL--LXXV with guard sheets. "Limited to one thousand numbered and registered copies." This copy is unnumbered. Trans. by Henry Francis Cary and illustrated with the designs of M. Gustave Doré. With critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante and chronology.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 190126
- Title
- The Dore Dante: The Vision of Hell; Volume 1 & Volume 2
- Author
- Dante Alighieri; Henry Francis Cary and Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ (both volumes have light aging and soiling to boards, Volume 2 has heavy chipping along board edges, pages and plates ligh
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London/ Paris/New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- European Artists ; Dore, M.Gustave ; ;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...