Michael Mazur etchings
Subtitle: L'inferno
By: Dante ; with selections from the Italian translated in an English version by Robert Pinsky
Contributors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; Pinsky, Robert; Townsend, Robert E.; Beresford, Anne; Wolfe Editions
Publisher: Printed by Robert Townsend at R.E. Townsend Editions
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Georgetown, Mass
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: ita
Subjects: Hell; Poetry
Other titles: Etchings; Inferno; Inferno Dante; Inferno of Dante.
Notes: Spine title v. 1: Etchings; spine title v. 2: L'inferno.

Printer statement from colophon; date from spine of slipcase.

"The Italian text is excerpted from the Meridiani edition, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore ... The English verse translation by Robert Pinsky is excerpted from The Inferno of Dante, copyright 1994 Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--Colophon.

Title pages and endpapers in red and black; final etching (opp. canto XXXIV ii) printed in blue and black.

"Michael Mazur's forty-one etchings for The Inferno of Dante were made by the artist from 1996-2000 and printed by Robert Townsend at R. E. Townsend Editions in Georgetown, Massachusetts. Fifty portfolios of the etchings ... are encased in two red silk tri-fold portfolios ... and are contained in a box ... These are signed and numbered 1-50. Twenty-Five bound books with a bilingual text are printed on Frankfurt White and bound in black leather and red silk boards & slipcase. These are signed numbered in Roman numerals I-XXV on the colophon page. Each book contains one additional loose print in a special edition signed and numbered in Roman numerals SI-SXXV ... The type was printed by David Wolfe at Wolfe Editions, Portland, Maine. The design for the book & portfolio is by Anne Beresford. An additional separate edition of the individual prints without text are signed and numbered SE 1-25 and includes 10 artist proofs, signed and numbered SE a.p. 1-10"--Colophon.

"These elephant folios were bound by hand at the Harcourt Bindery in Boston. The ... slipcase is hand crafted at Portfoliobox, Inc."--Prospectus.

Illustrated prospectus printed on 2 folded sheets (8 p.) mounted inside a red silk folder (35 cm.). Title page of prospectus reads: The Inferno of Dante, a new suite of 41 etchings by Michael Mazur. Prospectus includes a reproduction of the Boatman etching with a guardsheet printed with canto III. Front cover of folder has blind stamped title and author and a mounted reproduction of one etching.
Table of contents: title: I. Canto I-XVII; title: II. Canto XVIII-XXXIV.