The Divine Comedy (6 volumes)
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. FLAXMAN, John. Limited Edition. HARDCOVER.
Six small quartos; hardcover; Vol. 1, 222 pp.; Vol. 2, 198 pp.; Vol. 3, 206 pp.; Vol. 4, 210 pp.; Vol. 5, 236 pp.; Vol. 6, 222 pp. Three quarter bound in green leather with brown spines; raised spine bands; gilt tooling to spines; gilt top edges, deckled fore- and bottom edges; tight bindings; softly marbled green endpapers, the same design as the paper portion of the boards; interiors clean throughout; all volumes contain two frontispieces (one color and one black-and-white) of paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and Pietro Senno; and numerous illustrations by John Flaxman, all present. All volumes contain ribbon markers. Corners of some volumes slightly rubbed; some of the paper boards, endpapers, and text block edges slightly toned, interiors not affected; Near Fine set.
Large paper edition limited to 650 copies, of which this set is numbered 159 in each volume.
. Near Fine. Item #167193Price: $1,750.00