La Divina commedia di Dante. Nuova edizione corretta da S. E. Petronij, ... Vol. I.
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3016685.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1. 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: "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)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full mottled calf (rubbed); single gilt fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers and bookblock edges. Front board and endpapers detached, spine missing.
Makers and roles
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321), author Stefano Egidio Petronj (1770-1837), editor