La Divina Commedia. Illustrazioni di Dalì.

Six volumes, 332 x 262 mm. [2], 158, [4]; [10], 173-326, [8]; [2], 162, [4]; [10], 173-328, [6]; [2], 163, [3]; [10], 173-320, [6] pages. In all, 100 coloured woodcuts after Salvador Dalì. Headings and inititals printed in pale blue. Original editorial bindings executed by the Legatoria Torriani, Milan: loose uncut leaves preserved in wrappers and chemises decorated in gold and red (Inferno), purple (Purgatorio), and pale blue (Paradiso), after Dalì, each in a cardboard slipcase in similar decoration.

Italian edition of the one of the masterpieces by Salvador Dalì (1904-1989) as an illustrator; an edition limited to 3,044 copies, this is no 1351. Forty-four copies were printed under the supervision of Giovanni Mardersteig in the Officina Bodoni on Japan paper Kaji Torinoko, and 3,300 in Stamperia Valdonega in Verona on hand-made Magnani paper. The text is the standard scholarly established by the Società Dantesca Italiana, revised by Giovanni Nencioni. The plates were engraved and printed by Raymond Jacquet, on paper Rives. The original watercolours executed by Dalì were first exhibited in 1960 at the Musée Galliera in Paris.