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DANTE, ALIGHIERI. 1265-1321 The Divina Commedia. Translated by Henry Boyd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. image 1
DANTE, ALIGHIERI. 1265-1321 The Divina Commedia. Translated by Henry Boyd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. image 2
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DANTE, ALIGHIERI. 1265-1321
The Divina Commedia. Translated by Henry Boyd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802.

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DANTE, ALIGHIERI. 1265-1321

The Divina Commedia. Translated by Henry Boyd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802.
3 volumes. 8vo (233 x 144 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary straight grained red morocco elaborately gilt with wide borders of gilt Greek-key bands within fillets and other decorative designs, spines in six compartments gilt lettered or numbered in two, gilt edges; cloth folding case. Spines darkened, light staining, some wear to joints and rubbing to extremities. Light spotting to endpapers and intermittently within.
Provenance: J. Smyth (early owner's name on title).

FIRST EDITION of the complete Divine Comedy in English. Preceded only by the 1782 publication of Rogers' translation of the Inferno. Taller than most copies, possibly from the large paper issue cited by Lowndes, finely bound. Lowndes 569.

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