This edition makes the most of Gustave Dore's illustrations with an embossed picture on the front cover of the book. I already had a paperback version of Paradise Lost and I was looking for a version that presented the contents with appropriate decoration. The value for your money with this hardcover edition is going to be hard to beat.
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This is a review of the Slipcase edition. 1LR.This is a review of the book's presentation. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante s own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes." 10.5 13.25 x 1 inches volumes. The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. Dante is now led through the various spheres of heaven, and the poem ends with a vision of the Deity. On the summit is the Earthly Paradise where Beatrice meets them and Virgil departs. Along the way Dante passes Popes, Kings and Emperors, poets, warriors and citizens of Florence, expiating the sins of their life on earth. Hell is seen as an inverted cone with its point where lies Lucifer fixed in ice at the centre of the world, and the pilgrimage from it is a climb to the foot of and then up the Purgatorial Mountain. To him comes Virgil, the symbol of philosophy, to guide him through the two lower realms of the next world, which are divided according to the classifications of the Ethics of Aristotle. "Dante?s theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage. This set is unusually sturdy and tight and mostly clean as well. The sheer mass of the text blocks in these magnificent folios has left many copies broken or salvaged for the Engravings. A truly grand example of the art of metal plate engraving. Dore?s huge and spectacular illustrations bring Dante s visions to life in a style and manner to satisfy artistic appetites both subtle and grotesque. Also include 1972 sales slip from Book dealer. A reinforcement strip has been underplayed the end papers to strengthen spines. Gilt patterns on the leather wrapped to the inside, beautiful green endpapers. Tight bindings with minor cracking on the spine folds. The pages are still mostly clean and fresh but there is some poking on some pages. A fine and very attractive set of this great work.
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Folio, finely bound in Full handsome red/Maroon morocco covered boards, the spines with band Cover and Spine Gilt lettering, gilt page edges on three sides. With extraordinary Full Page Gustave Dore engravings on plates including an impressive portrait of Dante. With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Life of Dante, and Chronology. None Translated None With Notes and A Life of Milton By Robert Vaughan, D.D. This edition retains the classic marriage of illustration and verse and is particularly attractive in its pressing and design.Ĭondition: Good+. The poem has remained one of the most celebrated classics of modern English vernacular, indeed some say, that it constitutes the beginning of modern English poetry and literature. The powerful and mood-inspiring images make this one of the greatest issues of a true classic yet produced. John Milton s PARADISE LOST, one of the most important works in the English language, is most appropriately met by the magnificent engravings of Gustave Doré. A VERY HANDSOME COPY, FRESH AND CLEAN AND A VERY PLEASING PRESENTATION OF THIS GREAT WORK, NOT OFTEN FOUND IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. A fine copy, internally extremely fresh and clean, unusually firm and sturdy for the printing, the binding very handsome with bright morocco and cloth and bright gilt, some mellowing or age evidence to the cloth, rarely found in such pleasing condition due to the great size of the text-block, the boards and hinges very well preserved with little evidence of use. Large, tall folio, bound in contemporary three-quarter crushed black morocco over black cloth, the back and corner-pieces ruled in gilt and blind, the spine with raised bands and fine gilt tooling to the bands in gilt, one compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. With 50 magnificent plates after engravings by Gustave Doré. A very handsome printing and edition of Doré's classic illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost, one of the great poems in the language.
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