Shelfmark
CS.1423.15
Author
Title
Paradiso / [di] Dante.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Dante Paradiso
Edition
[Edizione minore / fatta sul testo dell' edizione critica di Carlo Witte].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Berlino : R. Decker, 1862]
Physical description
p. [359]-537 ; 21 cm.
Language
In Italian.
Note
Interleaved with blank leaves after every two or four pages.
Note
Text only.
Note
"Dante Paradiso. Witte"--Spine.
Note
Edition and publication details from external library catalogues.
Note
Errata at end.
Note
"Berlino, Ridolfo Decker, Stampatore del Re"--Colophon.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Littleton Vaughan with a motto: "Non nobis nascimur".
Provenance
Contains extensive handwritten annotations in black ink on the blank pages, and some marks in the margins, some with underlining.
Binding
19th century brown half-calf binding with floral cloth boards; blind-tooled roll along the leather edges on covers; five raised bands on spine bordered by gilt fillets; gilt titling on spine; brown sprinkled top edge; marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Paper bookmark loosely inserted with some ms. annotation in pencil.
Subject
Purgatory Poetry.
Subject
Heaven Christianity Fiction.
Genre/Form
Epics.
Genre/Form
Allegories.
Added entry--name
Witte, Karl, 1800 - 1883 editor.
Added entry--name
Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton) former owner.
Added entry--name
Decker, Rudolf von, 1804 - 1877 publisher.
Added entry--place
Germany Berlin.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B54211