Three Limited Editions Club Books: Dante, Virgil, Cicero

to include:

Dante; Melville Best Anderson, trans. THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Signed limited edition. No. 1122 of 1500 made at Officina Bodoni in Verona. Hardcover. Patterned red and tan cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge stained. Folio; [I-IV] V-[XXII], 491 [3]pp. Signed by printer on colophon/limitation statement. (Spine lightly browned and rubbed, small stain on boards, corners bumped, very slight separation from textblock; pages lightly toned and several with minor residue, otherwise a pristine interior; a very good or better copy, lacking slipcase.)

Virgil; John Dryden, trans.; Bruno Bramanti, illus. THE GEORGICS. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Signed limited edition. No. 963 of 1500 made at Officina Bodoni in Verona. Hardcover. Quarter green buckram over patterned paper boards, in brown slipcase with green velvet lined interior. 4to; [i-vi] vii-[xvi], 154 [4]pp. Signed on limitation page by engraver and printer. Wood engravings by Bramanti, several full-page. (Spine with light rubbing and grime; interior fine; slipcase with light scuffing; lacking glassine dust jacket. Near fine/none in very good slipcase.)

Cicero; Salvatore Fiume, illus. ORATIONS AND ESSAYS. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Signed limited edition. No. 853 of 1500 made at The Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Hardcover. Purple and white floral patterned cloth-covered boards, black label with gilt lettering on spine, top edge stained, in black slipcase. 4to; [I-VIII] IX-[XXVIII], 298 [4]pp. Signed by the artist on the limitation page. With (12) full-page color portraits. (Spine and boards with staining, separation from textblock; near pristine interior; slipcase with marks, stain at label and top panel; very good in good slipcase.)
Largest 13 x 8 1/2 in.
From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.
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