![]() ![]() It is usually held to be one of the world’s great works of literature. Written in rhymed 6-line stanzas, this is the rare Henry Boyd 1st translation into English of the Divine Comedy, Italian La Divina Commedia, original name Commedia, a long narrative poem written c. He was an active member of the Worcester Horticultural Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Rare in contemporary binding. In the late 1820s, he settled in Worcester where he immersed himself in local affairs. Perkins and was married to Ann Cushing Sturgis. Frederick William Paine (1799-1869) traveled widely as an agent of J. ![]() In very good condition with only light browning to the text, ownership inscription in pencil of Frederick William Paine of Worcester, Massachusetts on title pages dated 1813, in Paine’s bindings, half-titles. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dante, engraved by R.H. Translated into English with preliminary essays, notes, and illustrations by the Rev. Bound in three quarters contemporary calf. Davies, 1802.įirst edition in English of Dante’s masterpiece. The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso (The Divine Comedy). ![]()
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