La Comédie de Dante Alighieri de Florence. L’Enfer nouvellement traduit en rythme français par René A. Gutmann, avec une préface de Gabriele d’Annunzio. Edition décorée de gravures sur bois originales d’Hermann-Paul, et imprimée sur les presses de Léon Pichon, à Paris.

280 x 215 mm. [4], xvi, [2], 138, [12] pages. Text in two columns, double title-page printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's device printed in red on the title-page. Headings, initials and Italian text printed in red. Sixty-eight head- and tailpieces, by René Georges Hermann-Paul. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards. Smooth spine, with calligraphical title printed in red and black. Marbled pastedowns and flyleaves. Upper edge gilt. A copy in perfect condition, in a marbled slipcase.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Edition limited to 498 numbered copies, this is no. 363, one of the seventy-five printed on hand-made Arches paper. The Italian text of the Commedia is printed in red, the French translation by René A. Gutmann in black. The volume, finely illustrated by René Georges Hermann-Paul (1864-1940) opens with a preface by the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), who commends "la grandeur des marges, les espaces entre les lignes, la disposition des ornements, la sévère ordonnance des xylographies” (p. vi).