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ASHENDENE PRESS]. DANTE, ALIGHIERI. [La Divina Commedia]. Includes: Lo Inferno di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino. Chelsea, 1902 -- Lo Purgatorio di Dante... Chelsea, 1904 -- Lo Paradiso... Chelsea, 1905. All printed in Subiaco type, all with woodcuts by Charles Keates from drawings made by R. Catterson Smith after the 1497 edition, initial capitals supplied and heightened in gold, blue, red and green by Graily Hewitt, printer's mark C. Together 3 volumes, 8vo, original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut, slightly darkened. LIMITED EDITIONS, one of 135 and 150 copies on paper of an edition of 149 and 170. Hornby XIII ("This is the first book done in the 'Subiaco" type... the last book printed entirely by my own hands."); Hornby XX and XXI ("It is somewhat regretable that the number of copies printed of 'Inferno' was less than that of 'Purgatorio' and 'Paradiso', thus making it difficult to acquire a complete set of the 3 volumes of the Commedia..."). (3)