DANTE ALIGHIERI,.

La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English.

London: Nonesuch Press , 1928.

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First Nonesuch Press Edition of Dante's Inferno; one of only 1475 numbered copies with illustrations after the drawings of Sandro Botticelli

Limited first Nonesuch Press edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. Quarto, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine, double gilt ruling and gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, with 42 illustrations after the drawings of Sandro Botticelli. One of only 1475 numbered copies edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English translation by H.F. Cary, this is number 361. In near fine condition with some toning to the spine, as usual.

Founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett, The Nonesuch Press was established in the basement of Garnett's bookshop in Soho. Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books and then had them printed by commercial printers. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante.