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Il Purgatorio / Il Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri; illustrated by Gustave Dor�
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Upperco, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Hachette, Paris, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, hardcover. No dj, grey cloth. Vg condition. Rebound in grey buckram, gilt spine title; Several pages with short mended tears, tears not extending into text or illustrations. Dore's tissue-guarded illustrations all clean and sharp. Note: volume weighs about 15lbs., so shipping costs, especially to any overseas destination, may have to be adjusted. From the Gallery page of the website "The World of Dante":"...Finding it difficult to secure a publisher willing to take on the expense of producing the expensive folio edition the artist envisioned, Dor� himself financed the publication of the first book of the series, Inferno, in 1861. The production was an immediate artistic and commercial success. Buoyed by the popularity of Dor�'s edition of the Inferno, Hachette published Purgatorio and Paradiso in 1868 as a single volume...."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tiber Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1220501.03
- Title
- Il Purgatorio / Il Paradiso
- Author
- Dante Alighieri; illustrated by Gustave Dor�
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hachette, Paris
- Date Published
- 1868
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Art, Graphic, Illustrated, Literature,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Tiber Books
Biblio member since 2005
Upperco, Maryland
About Tiber Books
Specializing in scholarly non-fiction for over 30 years.
Glossary
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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