The Divine Comedy (complete in 3 volumes - Vol. I: Inferno; Vol. II: Purgatory; Vol. III: Paradise) by Dante Alighieri; Translated by Thomas G. Bergin; Illustrated by Leonard Baskin | First Edition, First printing. Published by New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969 | 3 Volume set - 281pp/292pp/295pp all illustrated. The three folio volumes are bound in ivory linen cloth at spines and brown/gray paper-boards; in publisher-issued slipcase. Spines gold gilt lettering gilt., in a slipcase of the same brown paper, with labels both front and back. Slipcase has tape repair along top edge. Printed in Italy with the Dante typeface designed by Mardersteig. The Italian Antiqua paper was especially made for this edition. Copious full-page illustrations by Baskin. The translator notes that the present work is based on his work done in the 1940s and 1950s for Crofts Classics, but that some lines have been revised and passages that were previously summarized are here presented in full. Clean with previous owner bookplate inside front cover of each volume.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Includes 3 volume slipcover box. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.