Author: ALIGHIERI, Dante
Title: The Divine Comedy
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Translation into verse by Melville Best Anderson. Introduction by Arthur Livingston. Folio. Brocade-like cloth in terra cotta and ivory with gilt-lettered salmon linen spine label. xxi, 492pp. Very good. Bright binding is near fine, while tight interior shows occasional light spotting, mostly to preliminary leaves; lacks slipcase. Handsome copy of the fifth title in the LEC's fourth series. Printed in Verona, Italy, by the renowned Officina Bodoni, the colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #318) signed boldly by that firm's famed designer, Hans Mardersteig. NEWMAN 41. .

Keywords: Poetry


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