The Vision of Hell By Dante Alighieri

Hardcover. n.d. (ca. 1880s). Three-quarter leather, with gilt lettered & decorated spine; raised bands; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. xxiv + 183 pp. Illustrated with 75 full-page engravings by Gustave Dore, plus frontipiece engraved portrait of Dante. In the translation of Rev. Henry Francis Cary, with critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante, and chronology. Ink name on fly-leaf; extremities rubbed, and some scuffing to leather at corners and head & foot of spine; front hinge started under endpapers; front & rear fly-leaves lightly creased, and some offsetting from frontispiece to title-page; interior otherwise bright with only minor foxing and clean, clear engravings; a nice bright tight copy, generally.