DANTE Alighieri. La Commedia, Commentary by Cristoforo Landino., Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481. Royal 2° (375 x 258mm.), 338 leaves (of 372, lacking first two preliminary quires, a1 [blank], d6, d10, e4, f1, r3, hh4, B8-10, C1-2, 4, L5-10, 11-12 [blank], 60 (or less) lines of commentary surrounding text, and headline, Type: 4b:115R (text), 5:P1R (commentary), three engraved illustrations from 2 plates, to the first 3 cantos, that for canto II repeated for canto III, engraved by Baccio Baldini, spaces preceding other cantos left blank, 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter (engraving to canto I trimmed at bottom and reinforced on verso, light discolouration or colouring? to engraving of canto II, first few corners worn, some staining, heaviest in e1, spotting, light dampstain at several extreme margins and in 116 and quire C, first quire rehinged, repaired tears into text on 6 leaves), 19th-century vellum over thin pasteboard, spine lettered in black (some wear to spine and corners), red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey; Franceso Canio? (early inscription). HC *5946; BMC VI, 628; (IC. 27094-6); Goff D29; GW 7966; IGI 360; Sander 2312.FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF DANTE and the second illustrated book printed at Florence. Engraved illustrations were clearly planned to head each canto, and engravings to the first two cantos only were printed in virtually all copies; an engraving to canto III is sometimes found, although often, as here, it repeats that of canto II. The intended illustrative programme failed, and all further plates (up to 19 in total) were pulled on a separate sheet and pasted onto the printed page; these exist in a few copies only. The engravings were previously thought to be based directly on a manuscript (now in Berlin and the Vatican) illustrated by Botticelli for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, but the manuscript is now accepted to date from the 1490's. Both manuscript and printed edition may stem from an earlier version of Botticelli drawings, now lost.

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DANTE Alighieri. La Commedia, Commentary by Cristoforo Landino., Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481. Royal 2° (375 x 258mm.), 338 leaves (of 372, lacking first two preliminary quires, a1 [blank], d6, d10, e4, f1, r3, hh4, B8-10, C1-2, 4, L5-10, 11-12 [blank], 60 (or less) lines of commentary surrounding text, and headline, Type: 4b:115R (text), 5:P1R (commentary), three engraved illustrations from 2 plates, to the first 3 cantos, that for canto II repeated for canto III, engraved by Baccio Baldini, spaces preceding other cantos left blank, 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter (engraving to canto I trimmed at bottom and reinforced on verso, light discolouration or colouring? to engraving of canto II, first few corners worn, some staining, heaviest in e1, spotting, light dampstain at several extreme margins and in 116 and quire C, first quire rehinged, repaired tears into text on 6 leaves), 19th-century vellum over thin pasteboard, spine lettered in black (some wear to spine and corners), red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey; Franceso Canio? (early inscription). HC *5946; BMC VI, 628; (IC. 27094-6); Goff D29; GW 7966; IGI 360; Sander 2312. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF DANTE and the second illustrated book printed at Florence. Engraved illustrations were clearly planned to head each canto, and engravings to the first two cantos only were printed in virtually all copies; an engraving to canto III is sometimes found, although often, as here, it repeats that of canto II. The intended illustrative programme failed, and all further plates (up to 19 in total) were pulled on a separate sheet and pasted onto the printed page; these exist in a few copies only. The engravings were previously thought to be based directly on a manuscript (now in Berlin and the Vatican) illustrated by Botticelli for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, but the manuscript is now accepted to date from the 1490's. Both manuscript and printed edition may stem from an earlier version of Botticelli drawings, now lost.

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DANTE Alighieri. La Commedia, Commentary by Cristoforo Landino., Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481. Royal 2° (375 x 258mm.), 338 leaves (of 372, lacking first two preliminary quires, a1 [blank], d6, d10, e4, f1, r3, hh4, B8-10, C1-2, 4, L5-10, 11-12 [blank], 60 (or less) lines of commentary surrounding text, and headline, Type: 4b:115R (text), 5:P1R (commentary), three engraved illustrations from 2 plates, to the first 3 cantos, that for canto II repeated for canto III, engraved by Baccio Baldini, spaces preceding other cantos left blank, 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter (engraving to canto I trimmed at bottom and reinforced on verso, light discolouration or colouring? to engraving of canto II, first few corners worn, some staining, heaviest in e1, spotting, light dampstain at several extreme margins and in 116 and quire C, first quire rehinged, repaired tears into text on 6 leaves), 19th-century vellum over thin pasteboard, spine lettered in black (some wear to spine and corners), red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey; Franceso Canio? (early inscription). HC *5946; BMC VI, 628; (IC. 27094-6); Goff D29; GW 7966; IGI 360; Sander 2312.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF DANTE and the second illustrated book printed at Florence. Engraved illustrations were clearly planned to head each canto, and engravings to the first two cantos only were printed in virtually all copies; an engraving to canto III is sometimes found, although often, as here, it repeats that of canto II. The intended illustrative programme failed, and all further plates (up to 19 in total) were pulled on a separate sheet and pasted onto the printed page; these exist in a few copies only. The engravings were previously thought to be based directly on a manuscript (now in Berlin and the Vatican) illustrated by Botticelli for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, but the manuscript is now accepted to date from the 1490's. Both manuscript and printed edition may stem from an earlier version of Botticelli drawings, now lost.

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