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This book announces the publication in four folio volumes of The comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence : commonly called The Divine Comedy / a line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original by Melville Best Anderson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1096
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--English.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).
- Genre:
- catalogs (documents)
- fine press books.
- excerpts.
- Catalogs
- Excerpts.
- Catalogs.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Marbled paper bindings (Binding)
- Artists' books -- California -- San Francisco -- 1929.
- Book prospectuses.
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)
- Pupton, E. H. (bookplate) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [13] pages ; 36 cm
- Other Title:
- Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence
- Spine label: Dante Alighieri
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Printed by John Henry Nash, MCMXXIX [1929]
- Contents:
- Announcement, 2-3
- The Florence of Dante Alighieri, 32-33
- Inferno, 122-123
- Purgatorio, 134-135
- Paradiso, 2-3.
- Notes:
- Includes an announcement by J.H. Nash, and sample pages of the forthcoming publication (excerpts from Anderson's translation of Dante's poem), issued in 4 volumes in 1929.
- Title and text within double line blue border.
- Marginal notes in black.
- Marbled paper boards.
- "M ... Your subscription having been entered already in the order of its receipt, your copy of The Comedy of Dante Alighieri will be number ---".
- 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.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 51, for Mr. E. H. Pupton.
- Contains:
- Prospectus for: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia. English. (Anderson)
- OCLC:
- 2705046
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