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Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt Lettered Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 1st UK Edition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettered spine and gilt device to the front board. Boards bright with a slight bubbling to the rear.C lean and bright internally. Published 1st in the US 1865-67 as a limited private issue, the complete set was first published in 1867, with copies being sent to the UK in March 1867 for UK publication. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details – only too pleased to help!
Seller: A Book Is Forever, Pershore, United Kingdom
Price: US$211.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1867. First UK edition thus. viii (lacking half-title) with pp. 247 to 489. This volume contains 'Purgatorio', the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso. Written in the early 14th century, it is an allegory telling of the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil - except for the last four cantos, at which point Beatrice takes over as Dante's guide. The book is bound in contemporary full leather boards with gold titling on a leather label and gold decoration on the spine. There is a gold stamped emblem on the front board. The case of the book is in excellent condition with some light scuffing to the leather on the boards and rubbing to the spine edges. The contents are tight and clean with a school prize inscription on the back of the front free endpaper.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom