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Each vol. is preceded by two of Longfellow's sonnets on translating the Divina commedia

"The fifth in the present series of books issued to the members of this Club... The type used is monotype Bembo in the 16-point size, and it is printed on a white manomacchina paper made by the Cartierre di San Marco of Milan and watermarked with the…

Text of cantos facing plates.

Contains facsimiles of all the extant drawings of Botticelli for the Inferno, and nine engravings designed by Botticelli, from the 1481 Landino edition of Dante, with quotations from the cantos of Longfellow's translation and a commentary by the…

Includes a signed copy of one of the seven lithographs (Plank 18/43) printed especially for this album

v. 1. The minor poems. Troilus and Cresseyde. The Canterbury tales, pt. 1.
v. 2. The Canterbury tales, pt. 2.
v. 3. The legend of good women. The parliament of fowls. The temple of glass / J. Lydgate. Colour plates, commentary, index of contents.

Both volumes signed: S.H. ; Preface signed: Alix Egerton.

Original leaf from the first edition. Pages 293/4 containing 1203/58 of "Wyves tale of Bath".

The 1561 Stow edition exists in two different issues. The 'first issue' has the title within a woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 67) and has the Prologue on leaves [fleuron]2-A4 with woodcut illustrations at the beginning of each of the…