![DANTE Alighieri (1265-1231). [Divina Commedia] con nuove et utili ispositioni. Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1552. 16° (118 x 65mm). Italic type. Title with woodcut device, 3 full-page woodcuts, medallion portrait of Dante, head-pieces and initials. (Title slightly soiled at margins and clipped at lower corner, light waterstaining to bottom margin of final quire.) Later 17th-century red morocco panelled in gilt, spine with repeated acorn design in three compartments and title 'Dante' in the other (rebacked, preserving old spine, extremities worn). Provenance: Robert A. Nedonchel (early signature on title) -- Robert Clive, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774; bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04802_0007_000(dante_alighieri_divina_commedia_con_nuove_et_utili_ispositioni_lyons_g110029).jpg?w=1)
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DANTE Alighieri (1265-1231). [Divina Commedia] con nuove et utili ispositioni. Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1552. 16° (118 x 65mm). Italic type. Title with woodcut device, 3 full-page woodcuts, medallion portrait of Dante, head-pieces and initials. (Title slightly soiled at margins and clipped at lower corner, light waterstaining to bottom margin of final quire.) Later 17th-century red morocco panelled in gilt, spine with repeated acorn design in three compartments and title 'Dante' in the other (rebacked, preserving old spine, extremities worn). Provenance: Robert A. Nedonchel (early signature on title) -- Robert Clive, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774; bookplate).
CLIVE OF INDIA'S COPY of this pocket edition, a page-for-page reprint (possibly a reissue, with new title) of Rouille's edition of 1551. Adams D-99; Brunet II, 503; Davies, Murray French 685.
CLIVE OF INDIA'S COPY of this pocket edition, a page-for-page reprint (possibly a reissue, with new title) of Rouille's edition of 1551. Adams D-99; Brunet II, 503; Davies, Murray French 685.