Price: $800.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Near fine
8vo (7” x 8¾”). pp. 186. Signed binding design by Edward B. Edwards stamped in russet on vellum of a peacock standing on the top of a pedestal with a rippling pool of water behind and surrounded by laurel branches and berries. The design is repeated on the rear board.
Floriated and rubricated initial caps; patterned russet and white eps incorporating stylized lions, swans and dragons; engraved head and tail pieces. Printed on handmade Italian paper by the De Vinne Press.
Includes frontis. portrait of Dante and a fold-out reproduction of a map of Florence, Italy from 1490.
A biography of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, best known for his epic poem The Divine Comedy, which is comprised of sections representing the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: purgatory, heaven, and hell. Boccaccio's Life of Dante, originally written in 1373, played an important role in both promoting the poetic importance of Dante and The Divine Comedy.
A near fine copy with faint scattered foxing on a few of the prelim leaves. Scarce.
Title: A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO'S LIFE OF DANTE WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND A NOTE ON THE PORTRAITS OF DANTE
Categories: Biography, American Publisher's Bindings, 20th C., AESTHETIC MOVEMENT, Dante Alighieri , Poetry - Middle Ages,
Edition: First
Publisher: New York, The Grolier Club: 1900
Binding: vellum
Book Condition: Near fine
Seller ID: 2859
Keywords: Dante Alighieri Publisher's Binding Biography Aesthetic Movement