![]() ![]() Thus the varied torments of the dwellers in Hell are shown with minute and sometimes shocking fidelity" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 327-28). "One can hardly deny that Doré is not merely one of the most popular but also one of the greatest of all illustrators… He gladly subjugated his imagination, aiming at literal renderings of the precise descriptions of the Inferno. Handsomely bound in publisher's deluxe three-quarter morocco-gilt by La Belle Sauvage bindery. ![]() In this copy the initial letters of alternating Cantos have been exquisitely illuminated by hand in vivid watercolors. Limited "Henry Irving edition" of one of Gustave Doré’s most famous illustrated works-copy number 66 of 1000 produced-with frontispiece portraits of the poet and the illustrator, and 135 full-page wood-engravings. Folio (11 by 14 inches), publisher's deluxe three-quarter dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines with red morocco onlays, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. ![]() ![]() The Doré Dante: Vision of Hell Vision of Purgatory Vision of Paradise. “TORMENTS SHOWN WITH MINUTE AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING FIDELITY”: DORÉ’S MAGNIFICENT EDITION OF DANTE’S ENTIRE DIVINE COMEDY, WITH 137 PLATES, HANDSOMELY BOUND AND HAND-ILLUMINATED ![]()
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