DORE.- DANTE. L'Enfer [- Purgatoire, Le Paradis]. With drawi - Lot 66

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DORE.- DANTE. L'Enfer [- Purgatoire, Le Paradis]. With drawi - Lot 66
DORE.- DANTE. L'Enfer [- Purgatoire, Le Paradis]. With drawings by Gustave Doré. French translation by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino accompanied by the Italian text. Paris, Hachette, 1868, 2 vols. in-folio, red half-chagrin, spine decorated with 5 nerves, red percaline boards filleted and monogrammed in cold, gilt head, combed endpapers (spidered jaws, headpieces and nerves rubbed, boards stained, corners dull, spotting and russeting) (binding signed Ch. Magnier). First printing of this bilingual edition of "La Divine Comédie", with the Italian text in the lower part. Complete with 136 wood-engraved hors-texte on a tinted background, under captioned and numbered serpents. "One of the greatest undertakings that Gustave Doré conceived, studied and matured long before publication" (Leblanc, 77).
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