Dante's Inferno (Dore Illustrated Popular Edition)

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Popular Edition. London: Cassell & Company, 1892. 8vo. Pages: xxxii, 333, [i]. 16 pages of publisher's advertisements. 

Bound in original green publisher's cloth. Cover and spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, black, and colour. All edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Near fine. A beautiful copy featuring Gustav Dore's remarkable binding and woodcut illustrations.

Full title: The Vision of Hell by Dante Aligheri. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, MA. And illustrated with the Seventy-Five designs of Gustav Dore. With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Life of Dante, and Chronology.

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