1991.1016.996.T14

Lo Inferno di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino

Dante Alighieri (author), Ashendene Press (publisher), C.H. St John Hornby (printer), Katharine Adams (binder), Graily Hewitt (designer), Robert Catterson-Smith (illustrator), Emery Walker (collector), Meysey Turton (calligrapher)

Private press book. Entitled 'La Divina Comedia Inferno' by Dante, Italian poet of The Middle Ages. Published by the Ashendene Press, 1902. Binding by Katharine Adams. This is the first book of Dante's three part 'Divine Comedy', which describes Dante's journey through hell, purgatory and paradise. From the library belonging to Emery Walker.

, London, London

1902-01-01 - 1902-12-31 1903-01-01 - 1903-12-31

Early 20th century

cotton, paper, vellum, gilt, cardboard, leather

printed, gilded

Emery Walker from the Printers, / C.H. St. J. Hornby and Cicely Hornby, / July, 1903.