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Author: Dante Alighieri
Title: Le prime quattro edizioni della Divina commedia letteralmente ristampate per cura di G.G. Warren, Lord Vernon
Place Published: Londra [i.e. London]
Publisher:Presso Tommaso E Guglielmo Boone
Date Published: 1858
Description:

xxvi, [2], 748 pp. Introduction by A. Panizzi. With 5 facsimile plates. 38x27.5 cm. (15x11"), half diced calf & cloth, rebacked with original gilt-lettered spine laid on.

Reprint of the first four important incunabular editions of the Divine Comedy: Foligno 1472, Jesi 1472, Mantua 1472 and Naples 1474. The four texts are printed in the four quarters of each page. This is a presentation copy, boldly inscribed in ink by the editor on the front free endpaper, ""Mrs. Meynell, with Lord Vernon's knd regards, Sudbury, 10 Feby. 1861."

Some rubbing to spine and extremities; light foxing to earlier leaves, free endpaper creased through the inscription, very good.