The Inferno of Dante Alighieri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author.

Contributor:

Oelsner, Herman, 1871- editor.

Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879, translator.

J.M. Dent & Sons, publisher.

Printed by Turnbull & Spears at Edinburgh--final page

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Temple classics

The Temple classics

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Hell--Early works to 1800.

Hell.

Genre:

Early works.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Johnson, Betty (autograph, 1933) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4] , 401, [1] pages, 1 leaf of plates : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 16 cm

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Turnbull & Spears

Place of Publication:

London : J.M. Dent and Sons, MCMXXIX [1929].

Notes:

First issue of this edition 1900. [15th] reprint 1929.

Italian and English on opposite pages.

Title in black and red, within ornamental border.

"The present edition of the 'Inferno' ... has been edited by Mr. H. Oelsner ... The Italian text is based on the editions of Witte, Moore and Casini. The translation and arguments have been reprinted, with certain alterations, from the second (copyright) edition of Dr. Carlyle's famous version ... The notes, by Dr. Oelsner, are entirely new."--Page 401

Printed by Turnbull & Spears at Edinburgh--final page

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

10033065