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The Divina commedia of Dante / translated into English verse by James Ford ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ4315 .F67 1870 [1]-[3]
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Divina commedia. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Penn Provenance:
- Ford, James, 1797-1877 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Ford, Jane Nagle, approximately 1800-1893 (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 430 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Smith, Elder & Co., 15, Waterloo Place, 1870.
- Language Note:
- English translation of: Divina commedia.
- Notes:
- Errata slip inserted.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy without errata slip.
- Kislak Center copy bound in 3 volumes: [1] Inferno -- [2] Purgatorio -- [3] Paradiso. Each volume interleaved with blank leaves on which the translator has made copious manuscript annotations; the printed text has also been marked up in manuscript by the translator.
- Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Chaucer Bookshop with assistance from the Dante and Tasso Library Fund.
- Kislak Center copy: each volume has bookplate ("JAMES FORD, M.A.") on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy: volume [1] has laid in advertisement ("Christmas Notice 1902") of Edward Hamer & Co. (Llanidloes, Wales) and postcard of the same company addressed in pencil in manuscript to "Mrs Ford" (Jane Frances Ford, née Nagle, approximately 1800-1893) on one side and dated in pencil in manuscript "19th Dec [190]2" on the other.
- Kislak Center copy: volume [1] has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.
- Kislak Center copy: volume [2] has protrait of Dante Alighieri affixed to first blank leaf in volume; volume [3] has printed leaf with bust portrait of Dante Alighieri and poem titled "Sonetto del Boccaccio in lode di Dante" tipped in at beginning of volume.
- Kislak Center copy: each volume bound in full diced calf; boards ruled in gold and tooled in blind; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine panels; red leather spine label with author's name and volume title stamped in gold; translator's initials ("J.F.") and date ("1870") stamped in gold at foot of spine; marbled endpapers; silk marker.
- Cited in:
- Fiske 1012 E 1
- OCLC:
- 224514869
- Online:
- The Dante and Tasso Library Fund Home Page
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