[DANTE] ALIGHIERI, Dante

Purgatorio ... Illustrations by Salvador Dalí

London, The Folio Society, 2007 (first thus).

Large quarto, xvi, 154 pages plus 34 full-page plates after colour woodcuts by Salvador Dalí.

Quarter morocco and moiré cloth; spine lettered in gilt; a fine copy in the pictorial slipcase (a little rubbed on the rear panel).

Dalí was commissioned by the Italian government to illustrate the entire 'Divine Comedy' to commemorate the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's birth. This edition follows the blank verse translation of Henry Francis Cary, with extensive notes at the rear.

Item #131813

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