Purgatorio.
Printed in the UK. The Folio Society. 2007. Folio Society edition. Leather and cloth over boards. Hardcover 1/4 blue leather over light blue moire silk over boards with slipcase. Folio. xvi, 154 pp. Illustrated with 34 full colour plate reproductions of watercolour paintings by Salvador Dali commissioned in 1951 by the Italian government for a seven hundredth anniversary edition of the Divine Comedy. Text taken from the 1844 edition of Cary's "The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri." 2008 second printing. Title, author, illustrator, and printer's device stamped in gilt on spine. Blue topstain. Blue decorative endpapers. Glue residue on the front flyleaf from removed bookplate. Pages clean and bright. Binding strong and square. Slight mark on the spine. Slipcase square and lightly shelf worn. A near fine copy.
. Near fine. Item #67601
Price: $200.00