Dante Alighieri

Le prime quattro edizioni della Divina Commedia letteralmente ristampate per cura di G. G. Warren Lord Vernon.

London, Tommaso and Guglielmo Boone, 1858.

4° (385 x 282 mm). xxvi, [2], 748 pages. Five plates, reproducing leaves and colophon from the incunabula used for the edition. Nineteenth-century brown half-leather, boards covered with percaline. Title in gilt lettering on the spine. A very fine copy.



Deluxe edition, limited to only 100 copies, which contains – printed in four columns – the text of the Commedia taken from four rare incunabula: the three editions appeared in 1472 respectively in Foligno, Mantua and Jesi (or Venice) and the Commedia published in 1474 by the Neapolitan printer Francesco Del Tuppo. The introduction was written by the Italian exiled Antonio Panizzi (1797-1879), while the texts were edited by one of the most renowned English Dante scholar: George John Warren Vernon (1803-1866), who also assembled an outstanding Dante collection.