The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Scuffing to front pastedown. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Bubbling to boards. Textblock is shaky.

Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Mild crushing to spine ends causing cloth to fray.

Frederick Warne & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Top edge of some pages uncut throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper, half-title page and title page. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dent to edge of front board.

New York: John B. Alden, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped and worn, covers rubbed. Binding tight and text unmarked. PO's initials on ffep. Paper toned throughout. Poetry. Stax.

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C. Arthur Pearson, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Translated by H. Fr. Cary. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. Hardcover. Civil War-era copy of Dante's masterpiece, translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary. Good+ in the original brown cloth. The primary flaw is a dampstain at the top corner of the pages, which toward the end of the book becomes larger. Illustrated with 12 engravings from designs by John Flaxman. All plates are present, and all have some dampstain, with plates toward the back of the book as much as half dampstained. Embossed brown cloth has a little wear, and the spine gilding is dulled. Includes an index; 587 pages.

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