![]() ![]() Tastefully re-backed, with slight loss to gilt bands. An excellent example of the fine art of book production in early 20th c. Laid in: two 4-page prospectuses, from the publisher, and from a Milanese bookseller. by Michele Barbi for the Società Dantesca Italiana. Boards covered in purple silk, with elaborate gilt designs to upper and lower boards. Fully colored frontispiece, initials, and head- and tailpieces + 39 full- and half-page color illustrations of characters and incidents related to.the poems. ![]() Published by the Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, Bergamo, 1921. Signed by the calligrapher and the principal illustrator ( Nestore Leoni, and Vittorio Grassi). 234 from a limited edition of 1321 copies. Facsimile reproduction of Dante's second most highly prized work, on specially-produced hand-made paper from Fabriano, of a modern (1921) codex in full vellum. Leoni, Nestore & Grassi, Vittorio (illustrator). ![]()
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