La Divina commedia di Dante. Nuova edizione corretta da S. E. Petronij, ...
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3016685
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : port ; 11 cm. (16mo.) Former shelfmark: 22.a.31-32. Split set: vols. 1-2 only. Provenance: printed book label: 'Melle. A. Petit' [i.e. Amélina Petit de Billier (1798-1876), governess and female companion to the Feilding and Talbot families]. Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf in vol. 1: "Amelina. Questo libro mi fir dato dall' amica Carolina il primo dell' anno 1829 Laycock Abbey" [i.e. a gift to Amélina from Caroline Feilding (1808-1881)]. Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf in vol. 2: "Amelina - donné par son amie Caroline - 1er Janvier 1829 Laycock Abbey". Binding: nineteenth-century full mottled calf (rubbed); single gilt fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers and bookblock edges. Vol. 1 front board and endpapers detached, spine missing; vol. 2 front board detached, spine partially missing at head and tail.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321), author Stefano Egidio Petronj (1770-1837), editor