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DANTE ALIGHIERI. -- DORE, M. Gustave (illustrator) The Vision of Hell. [With:] The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise. London: Cassell & Company, n.d. [ca 1890]. 2 volumes, 4to (332 x 250 mm). Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations, lettered tissue guards. (Spotting throughout, hinge starting.) Contemporary half calf, green boards, red lettering-piece on spine, gilt-stamped, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands (rubbing and wear to boards and spine with associated losses and chipping, corners bumped). New edition translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, with critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante and chronology.

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