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ALIGHIERI, DANTE, TRANSLATION BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
Boston and New York:, Houghton Mifflin and Company,, 1906. De luxe large paper edition, limited to 650 copies of which five of these of them are No. 492 and one is No. 33. Illustrated with drawings by Flaxman. Large 8vo (11 x 7 3/4) Brown buckram with paper spine labels. Fore edges are untrimmed. Vol. I has a frontis. and 9 plates. Vol. II has a frontis. and 2 plates. Vol. III has a frontis. and 6 plates. The top of the spine is slightly damaged (chewed but not very apparent from outside.inside of cover a little more obvious. Vol. IV has a frontis. and 4 plates. Waterstain on upper inner corner of 1st 7 pages and then a fainter stain on the next few pages..none affecting text or plates. Vol. V has a frontis. and 5 plates. Waterstain on pp. 5-41, none affecting plates. Vol. VI has a frontis. and 3 plates. This is copy 33 of 650. Quite a few of the pages have the waterstain, a few a little darker, two of the plates are only slightly affected and you have to look close to see that they are just slightly toned from it.ages of these volumes are unopened. All the volumes are lightly rubbed with Vol V more so. Corners moderately bumped. Overall this is a lovely set of a scarce publication.
Offered for US$ 400.00 by: Sun Mountain Books - Book number: 7650
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