{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-inferno-purgatorio-paradiso-dante-alighieri-folio-society-dali-di-paolo-blake-2","title":"The Divine Comedy; Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALIGHIERI, Dante.  Inferno. \u003c\/strong\u003e London: The Folio Society, 1998. First reprint with a new binding, 2004. Translated by Henry Francis Cary, introduced by Robin Hamlyn, with illustrations by William Blake. 325 × 230 × 32 mm. Pp. [1–2], [i–viii] ix–xviii [xix–xx], 1–151 [152–154]: [32] leaves of colour ‘plates’. Type: Walbaum. Printed by Scotprint and bound by Hunter and Foulis. Quarter dark-brown morocco, pale blue artificial moiré silk boards; dark red endleaves printed in darker red with ‘All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here’. Dark brown slip case with one of Blake’s illustrations on the front panel. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis translation was first published between 1804 and 1814, and was reprinted in a revised form (used here) in 1819. Blake’s drawings to Dante were made between around 1824 and his death in 1827, for a series of etchings that was never completed (one of the etchings is reproduced on the binding). Blake’s illustrations, despite being made during his final years when his health was failing, are vigorous and profound; and the volume is completely successful in design terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[together with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALIGHIERI, Dante.  Purgatorio.\u003c\/strong\u003e  London: The Folio Society, 2007.  Second printing thus, 2008.  Translated by Henry Francis Cary, with introductory essays by George Melly and Michael Prodger, illustrations by Salvador Dalí. 326 × 227 × 28 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii–xvi, [1–2] 3–154 [155–156]: [34] leaves of colour plates. Type: Walbaum. Printed by Les Heures Claires. Bound by Hunter and Foulis. Quarter dark blue-green leather, pale blue artificial silk boards; dark blue endleaves printed with black let tering. Dark blue-green slip case with a colour reproduction of one of Dalí’s illustrations on the front. Through a collaboration with the copyright holders, this edition is the first to reproduce Dalí’s original watercolours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[together with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALIGHIERI, Dante.  Paradiso. \u003c\/strong\u003e London: The Folio Society, 2009.  First printing thus.  Translated by Henry Francis Cary, introduced by Michael Prodger, with illustrations by Giovanni di Paolo. 326 × 227 × 27 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii–xi [xii], 1–203 [204]. Type: Walbaum. Printed by Martins of Berwick. Bound by Hunter and Foulis in quarter dark blue leather with grey artificial silk boards; dark blue endleaves with letters reading GRATEFULLYDIRECTTHYMINDTOGOD printed in darker blue. Blue slip case with image of the Last Judgement by di Paolo on front. Sixty-two illuminations by the artist follow Dante along his journey through the nine spheres of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good copies, the bindings square and firm, with pages clean and free from previous ownership marks. There is light wear to the leather, the slightest rubbing and a couple of entirely innocuous foxing spots to the closed text blocks, and very mild sunning to the spine of the Inferno volume; otherwise fine. Housed in the matching slipcases, which show some shelf wear and scuffing (Inferno’s with a strip of sunning to the upper portion of the plain panel), and a little bumping and marking in places (Purgatorio's in particular with a heftier bump to rear), but remaining structurally sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53578977411411,"sku":null,"price":845.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/The-Divine-Comedy-DANTE-ALIGHIERI-Salvador-Dali-Di-Paolo-Blake-FOLIO-SOCIETY_1_6f235d88-0ccf-462f-be21-5bdb6f5e50ed.webp?v=1777122421","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/the-divine-comedy-inferno-purgatorio-paradiso-dante-alighieri-folio-society-dali-di-paolo-blake-2","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}