[DORÉ]. DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Inferno. French translation by Pier-Angelo FIORENTINO. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie,1861. In-folio, fawn morocco, large frame of interlaced brown and green mosaic listels with gilded fillets decorating the boards, ribbed spine decorated with the same, gilded edges, green morocco lining decorated with a frame with fleuron in the center, green moiré silk endpapers (C. Magnier). FIRST EDITION. Portrait of the author and 75 engraved plates by Gustave DORÉ. From the library of Colonel Daniel Edgar Sickles (no. 185), with bookplate. Spine slightly darkened; rare brown spots. A FINE COPY IN A MOSAIC MOROCCO BINDING BY CHARLES MAGNIER.
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[DORÉ]. DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Inferno. French translation by Pier-Angelo FIORENTINO. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie,1861.
In-folio, fawn morocco, large frame of interlaced brown and green mosaic listels with gilded fillets decorating the boards, ribbed spine decorated with the same, gilded edges, green morocco lining decorated with a frame with fleuron in the center, green moiré silk endpapers (C. Magnier).
FIRST EDITION.
Portrait of the author and 75 engraved plates by Gustave DORÉ.
From the library of Colonel Daniel Edgar Sickles (no. 185), with bookplate.
Spine slightly darkened; rare brown spots.
A FINE COPY IN A MOSAIC MOROCCO BINDING BY CHARLES MAGNIER.
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