WITH 60 PLATES AFTER ENGRAVINGS BY DORE: DANTE'S PURGATORY AND PARADISE
DANTE. Purgatory and Paradise. Translated from the Original of Dante Alighieri by Henry Francis Cary, M.A., and Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [1889]. Large quarto, original half vellum gilt, dark blue cloth boards.
Later edition, with full-page captioned facsimiles of Dore's sixty original plates.
"In 1865 [Dore] stated his determination `to produce in a uniform style an edition of all the masterpieces in literature'… [Among] the outstanding volumes in this remarkable series are… Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso in 1868… [O]ne can hardly deny that he is not merely one of the most popular but also one of the greatest of all illustrators" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 327-28). Malan, 265.
Closed tear to plate opposite page 88; only light soiling to vellum, gilt bright. An extremely good copy.