The vision of Dante Alighieri, or, Hell, purgatory and paradise
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3184883
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxi, 451 p.;. 8vo. With various photographs and reproductions of paintings pasted onto blank leaves and bound in. Laid in: a list of manuscript calculations written on a black-bordered sheet of paper; a dried leaf; printed order of service for The Office of Compline, dated 1899, with pencil marginal marks. Provenance: armorial bookplate, motto Dirigat deus, lettered “Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel” [i.e. Leonard Messel (1872-1953)]. Binding: full leather binding sewn onto two bands; metal clasps, leather straps, gold edges.
Makers and roles
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321) Edmund Garratt Gardner (1869-1935) H. F. Cary (1772 - 1844) John Flaxman RA (York 1755 – London 1826)