Ad Astra. Being Selections from the ‘Divine Comedy’ of Dante, with illustrations by Margaret & Helen Maitland Armstrong.

305 x 235 mm. [56] leaves. Text framed within illustrations inspired to the Commedia. Quarter-cloth on paperboards. Title printed on a paper label on the front cover. Corners slightly worn.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Original edition of this volume, richly illustrated by Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), daughter of the American painter Maitland Armstrong (1836-1918), known for his strained glass drawings. The volume, contains a selection of quotations from the three cantiche of the Commedia in the English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.