La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri, in Italian and English. by Dante Alighieri - 1928

[London] The Nonesuch Press, 1928., 1928. First printing. Limited edition: 1-1475 numbered copies, this being number 242. Folio. 325 pp. Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli. Bound in gilt-stamped orange vellum. Top edge gilt. Printed by the Westminster Press on Van Gelder paper; illustrations printed by Daniel Jacomet. Spine sunned and covers with some typical bowing, vellum on front and rear covers bright with light soil. This is a tight, very good book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited edition of 1,475 copies on Van Gelder paper, of which this is copy 876. [4], 324pp, [3]. Parallel Italian and English text, printed in double columns. With 42 sepia collotype plates (34 double-page). Original publisher's gilt-stamped orange vellum. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. The exquisite Nonesuch Press edition of Dante's magnum opus, the Italian text edited by Marion Casella of the University of Florence paired with the celebrated English translation of H. F. Cary; with 42 illustrations reproduced by Daniel Jacomet after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. . Folio.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. This is a very good hardcover copy in the publisher's original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top page edge gilt, others untrimmed. Double page black & white illustrations taken from Botticelli's drawings in Berlin and Rome. The spine is faded, as usual. Very clean throughout. This is a limited edition of 1475 copies, this copy numbered 403. The orange vellum boards are ruled in gilt and have gilt designs front and back. The boards are not worn, just the spine sunned. Small private owner bookplate on inside front cover. 12" high X 8" wide. A handsome production by the incomparable Nonesuch Press. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Edition limited to 1475 copies, folio, pp. [4], 324, [3]; full original orange vellum; near fine copy, with a small split to the front cover along one of the fillets and a few other hints of wear to the extremities, but with no fading of the spine, as is common with this book. The Italian text was edited by Marion Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H.F. Cary, 34 double-page and 8 full-page illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli. One of the premiere productions of the press. Dreyfus, 50.

[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited to 1475 copies, this no. 1174. A brilliant copy with absolutely none of the usual spine fading and no warping. Just a hint of soiling to cover, a bit of spotting to edge of front flyleaf. Limited to 1475 copies, this no. 1174. 324p. Illustrated with 42 double-page plates after Sandro Botticelli. 4to. Bound in full orange-dyed vellum, gilt, t.e.g. on the rough. Housed in custom full slipcase of blue silk-covered boards with leather spine label gilt. Text in Italian and English side by side in columns. Edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence, the English version by H.F.Cary. Printed on Van Gelder paper with the Nonesuch watermark. Designed by Francis Meynell. Dreyfus 50.

London: Nonesuch Press. Fine. 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1475 numbered copies, this one being number 546. An rather clean, bright and pleasing copy in orange colored vellum, lettered and designed in gilt. No fading to spine and no warping. With 42 illustrations, measuring each about 18 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches, that have been reproduced in Berlin and Rome from earlier drawings by Sandro Boticelli. This edition has been printed on Van Gelder paper. The text has been printed in Volume is housed In a double layered slip-case; wrap around stiff boards in quarter leather slip-case ; The preeminent contribution to Italian literature by Dante Alighieri (ca.1265-1321) , poet, writer, and political thinker. Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven; ; Small Folio; iv, 324, [4] pages .

London: Nonesuch Press, 1928. 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli, printed by Daniel Jacomet. No. 1006 of 1475 copies. Printed by the Westminster Press in Poliphilus Roman and Blado Italic on Van Gelder paper. Folio, bound in a very handsome American designer binding of full black morocco with an arresting design on both covers of onlaid red/tan morocco with gilt tooling round the shape and gilt ruled lines coming to points, gilt titling on spine, hand painted endpapers of acrylic on paper showing a representation of an inferno, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very good copy.||Bound by Joe Newman in 1990, this binding was exhibited at The Grolier Club in 1991 and is pictured in the catalogue of the show entitled ‘Contemporary American Bookbinding’ which was also on display at the Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal in Paris and the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels. Inserted loose is a compliments slip from the Grolier Club “Thank you for your participation in the exhibition… Read More

[London], The Nonesuch Press, 1928. . Limited edition, number 805 of 1475 copies, printed in Monotype Bladfolio; text in Italian and English printed in parallel, 34 double-page and 8 full-page illustrations after the drawings of Sandro Botticelli; publisher's full orange-stained vellum, double gilt rule borders to upper and lower covers, central gilt device to both covers, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, a small area of browning to the fore-edge, only discernible when open and the pages are staggered, due to he deckled or unshaved nature of the text block, otherwise a fine copy. A sumptuous edition bound in orange vellum, this beautiful book was the most over-subscribed of all the Nonesuch publications. The production was beset with problems over the paper stock and the binding, therefore as a result, it is exceptionally rare to find such a superb copy without the usual fading to spine or splaying to covers. Dreyfus 50.