DANTE. Opere: A collection of engraved plates, from: La Divina Commedia con varie annotazioni e copiosi rami adornata... (&:) prose e rime liriche edite ed inedite, con copiose ed erudite aggiunte. Venezia, Zatta, 1757-1758.

4to (the leaf 262x180 mm), late 19th cent. half vellum, with ms. title on spine, red sprinkled edges, some general waterstaining, mostly at the beginning and at the end, first leaf dusted, another in the middle, soiled and stained, a brown spot to the upper margin of last plates.



Engraved portrait of Dante, altogether 107 engraved plates, of which: 33 of 34 in the Inferno (as lacking plate n. 6), 33 in the Purgatorio, and 31 in the Paradiso (the numbering shows no breaks but evidently 2 are lacking), plus 7 additional plates of which one is repeated. It seems this is a re-issue of the original plates, now numbered (the numbering of the plates doesn’t appear in the original edition). The plates are engraved by: Gaetano Zompini, Giuliano Giampiccoli, Francesco Fontebasso, Gasparo Diziani, Bartolomeo Crivellari, Giuliano Zuliani, Jacopo Guarana and others. An almost complete set of the engraved illustrations of the Dante’s most famous edition of the 18th century. Morazzoni 255. De Batines I, 112. Koch I, 1. Mambelli 65: «Stimata edizione». Gamba,396: "Edizione fatta con lusso".

Sold together with two text volumes of the same Zatta edition, vols II and III, apparently complete in themselves.
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return