[SOLD] Dante Alighieri – Ad Astra – Selections from the Divine Comedy – 1914

A charming and unusual pocket edition of selected passages from The Divine Comedy, the epic 14th-century poem by the Italian writer Dante Alighieri.

Illustrated in black-and-white throughout by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong with full-page sketches, decorative borders, in-text drawings and others.

Published by Collins in London. Not dated, but previous owner’s inscription dated 1914. Bound in red leather with gilt lettering to front board and spine. In very good condition indeed.