Item #230 Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton. John Ruskin, George P. Huntington.
Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton
Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton
Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton

Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First American edition. Small octavo (7 7/8 inches tall), original burgundy cloth gilt. Owner signature, dated in year of publication, very mild edge-wear to corners and spine ends. A bright, near-fine copy. Item #230

"THE GREAT PROPHETIC EXPONENT OF THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE AGES"

First American edition of this comprehensive compendium of John Ruskin's remarks on Dante and the Divine Comedy. Ruskin evidently came to appreciate Dante only after the publication of the first volume of Modern Painters in 1842 but he devoted much of the next four decades to the study of Dante and his work. The first several sections consist of only 30-odd pages, collecting "the passages which relate to Dante himself and the poems as a whole." The rest of the book is given over to Ruskin's extended commentary on Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. With Huntington's brief Editor's Preface and Norton's short Introduction (both dated "October 1903"). Bound with a concluding publisher's catalogue of Dante Translations & Study. Printed at the Riverside Press on good paper and published in November 1903. An excellent copy of a fine book for a Dante collection.

Price: $150.00

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