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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
Contributor:
Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, printer, publisher, writer of supplementary textual content.
Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933, translator.
Van Gelder Zonen, papermaker.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
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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