The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
Edition: Fifth edition.
Series: Temple classics
Publisher: Published by J.M. Dent
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 401
Other titles: Pigskin Library.
Notes: Italian and English on opposite pages.

Title in red and black, within ornamental border.

"The present edition of the 'Inferno' ... has been edited by Mr. H. Oelsner ... The Italian text is based on the editions of Witte, Moore and Casini. The translation and arguments have been reprinted, with certain alterations, from the second (copyright) edition of Dr. Carlyle's famous version ... The notes, by Dr. Oelsner, are enterly new."--page 401.

"Index to maps, plates and tables"--page 1 at end.

From the library of Theodore Roosevelt; given to Roosevelt by his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson as a travel gift for the 1909-1910 Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition.

Bound in early 20th-century pigskin, gray endpapers (title page closely cropped); in CMI case.