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Description:
Dante (1265-1321) The Vision of Hell. trans., Henry Francis Cary; illus. Gustave Doré. London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, New Edition, [c. 1900].
Folio, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with frontispiece and dozens of full-paged wood engravings throughout the text; bound in full brown morocco tooled in blind and gilt, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles; leather surfaces heavily rubbed, front endleaves and preliminaries up to and including the frontispiece detached, binding otherwise structurally intact.
Estimate $200-250
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