Casamassima, Emanuele & Dante Alighieri

LA PRIMA EDIZIONE DELLA DIVINA COMMEDIA: FOLIGNO 1472

      Casamassima, Emanuele & Dante Alighieri. LA PRIMA EDIZIONE DELLA DIVINA COMMEDIA: FOLIGNO 1472. Milano, ITALY: Edizioni Il Polifolo, First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers in Slipcase. Literary Monograph. Near Fine. 112pp, 38 gravure illustrations. Text in Italian. With a bibliography. This is the noted late Italian scholar and librarian Emanuele Casamassima's monograph on the 1472 first folio edition of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" - including a reproduction of the original. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only produced in 1972 for Ing. C. Di Ivrea, this is printed in letterpress with gravure reproductions on thick, handmade paper stock. A most handsome copy of this luxe tome in the publisher's slipcase showing the faint remnant of a removed bookplate on the verso of the first preliminary. Inventory Number: 014038#11; .