Research Catalog

The vision of hell

Title: The vision of hell / by Dante Alighieri ; translated by Henry Francis Cary and illustrated with the designs of Gustave Doré.
Author: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Publication: London : Paris : New York : Cassell & Co., [1883-1885]

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Description

26 pts. (xxiv, 183, [1] p., [1], 75, 3 leaves of plates) : ill., port.; 34 cm.

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Note

Each part in the original gray-blue paper covers, as issued. Title page in pt. 1; other preliminaries in pts. 24-26. Publisher's advertisements on p. [2-3] of covers, and inserted in pt. 19 ([2] p.) and laid in in pt. 26 ([1] p.). General advertisements on p. [4] of covers, and inserted in pt. 13 ([1] p.), pts. 12, 14-15 ([4] p.) and pts. 6, 8 and 18 ([2] p.).
Title on covers of parts: The divine comedy of Dante, comprising Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso.
Dates of publication supplied from publisher's advertisements on covers of parts (pt. 2: selection from publisher's catalog for "spring and summer seasons, 1883"; pt. 26: advertisement for "'Bright days,' the extra holiday number of Cassell's family magazine," published summer 1885).
This translation first published under title The inferno of Dante Alighieri, 1805; first ed. under title The vision of hell, 1814; first published as "New edition," 1844. First Cassell ed., with the Doré ill., 1865.
Illustrations: 79 prints : electrotype (reproductions of wood engravings) ; full-page. By Pannemaker, Pisan, Gauchard, and others, after Doré. Originally published in the 1861 Paris ed. issued by Hachette. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet (not counted in collation) with quotation from the passage illustrated. Comprise port. of Dante and 75 ill. to the Inferno, numbered 1-75, and the first 3 ill. to the Purgatorio and Paradiso, numbered 1-3. Cf. note on p. [1] of covers, pt. 26.

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Call Number

Arents BIP (Dante Alighieri. Vision of hell) 99-166

OCLC

144839511

Author

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Title

The vision of hell / by Dante Alighieri ; translated by Henry Francis Cary and illustrated with the designs of Gustave Doré.

Imprint

London : Paris : New York : Cassell & Co., [1883-1885]

Edition

New ed., with critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante, and chronology.

Indexed In:

Cornell Univ. Library. Dante Coll., I, p. 170

Malan, Dan. Gustave Doré, p. 265

Local Note

Arents copy partly unopened.

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Added Author

Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844.

Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.

Pannemaker, Adolphe François, 1822-

Pisan, Héliodore Joseph, 1822-1890.

Gauchard, Félix Jean.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Dante Alighieri. Vision of hell) 99-166