London: Williams & Norgate, 1914. First British edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, uncut, original dust wrapper. Ink stamp, slight tanning to endpapers of nearly-fine book, creasing, soiling and wear to rare original dust wrapper. Very good indeed. "THE DIVINA COMMEDIA REPAYS THE STUDY OF THE HISTORIAN, THE PHILOSOPHER, THE ARCHAEOLOGIST... More about The Spiritual Message of Dante
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1948. First American edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Spine leaning, early gift inscription (dated April 1949) to free front endpaper, toning to spine and faint soiling to fore-edge of dust jacket. An excellent, near-fine copy. "TO READ DANTE IS A JOY. TO... More about Dante the Philosopher
London, Boston and New York: Philip Lee Warner/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. Limited edition. Quarto (10 3/4 inches tall), original charcoal paper boards over cloth spine, gilt morocco spine label, uncut, original buff paper wrapper. Small bookseller's label, partially unopened. A fine book in a fine wrapper. "I HAVE SEEN DANTE'S... More about Portraits of Dante; From Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study with a Concise Iconography
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First American edition. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt. Owner signature, dated in year of publication, very mild edge-wear. A near-fine copy. "THE GREAT PROPHETIC EXPONENT OF THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE AGES" First American edition of this compendium of Ruskin's remarks on... More about Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978. First edition thus. Octavo, original purple cloth over lavender boards, original dust jacket. Upper right corner bumped. About-fine. "AS MY WHIMSICAL LORD TAKES ME" First Macmillan edition of these "simple, powerful reflections on the human condition in the scientific age," a splendid introduction to... More about The Whimsical Christian; 18 Essays