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DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321). [Divine Comedy, in Italian]. Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa descrititone del poeta. Venice: Aldus Manutius, August 1515.
Aldine 8o (154 x 94 mm). Collation: π2 a-z, A-H8. Italic type 1:80. Spaces for initials with printed guide-letters. Double-page woodcut map and double-page plan at end. (Lacks H7 blank, pale stain on A4.) Modern brown morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance: Leo S. Olschki (bookplate).
Later Aldine edition, after the first of 1502. It corrects the errors in the text of that edition, which was the first work issued by the Aldine press to include the anchor device. Adams D-88; Ahmanson-Murphy 118a; Renouard Alde 73.8.
Aldine 8o (154 x 94 mm). Collation: π2 a-z, A-H8. Italic type 1:80. Spaces for initials with printed guide-letters. Double-page woodcut map and double-page plan at end. (Lacks H7 blank, pale stain on A4.) Modern brown morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance: Leo S. Olschki (bookplate).
Later Aldine edition, after the first of 1502. It corrects the errors in the text of that edition, which was the first work issued by the Aldine press to include the anchor device. Adams D-88; Ahmanson-Murphy 118a; Renouard Alde 73.8.