The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri [The Inferno; The Purgatorio; The Paradiso] (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

791, [5] pp. Original burgundy full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated into English verse, with notes and elucidations, by Melville Best Anderson, with an introduction by Arthur Livingston and a color frontispiece portrait of Dante and 32 drawings by William Blake. The complete verse translation of all three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy, together in one volume. "Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation."