L'Inferno di Dante Alighieri /
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
Category
Books
Date
1858 - 1865
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3193487
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill. ; 40 cm. (fol.). Unopened. Provenance: loosely inserted autograph letter signed ('Vernon') (v.1): [i.e. from August Henry Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon 91829-1883) to Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (1856-1918)]; headed: Sudbury Hall, Derby; dated: 4 May 1869; sending these volumes edited by his father. Binding: nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco, with grained brown cloth on boards; gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Dante Alighieri (Florence 1265 - Ravenna 1321) George John Warren Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon, MP (1803-1866)