Lot 295
Alighieri, Dante, London Folio Society, Inferno & Paradiso, Two Volumes. 1. Inferno, translated by Henry Francis Cary, introduction by Robin Hamlin, with illustrations by William Blake. The Folio Society, London, 2007. Hardcover. 151 pages. Quarter-bound in brown Morocco leather over silk moire boards, gilt lettering on spine, and endpapers with typographic "All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here" decoration. Book size: 9 x 13". Presented in matching brown slipcase with Blake illustration. Like new.
2. Paradiso, translated by Henry Francis Cary, introduced by Michael Prodger, with illustrations by Giovanni Di Paolo. The Folio Society, London, 2009. Hardcover. 203 pages. Quarter-bound in blue Morocco leather over silk more boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Book size: 9 x 13". Presented in a matching slipcase with detail from di Paolo's The Last Judgment, 1465. Like new. Estimate Value $500 - 800
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