Compositions by John Flaxman sculptor, R.A., from the Divine poem of Dante Alighieri, containing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
By: with quotations from the Italian, and translations from the version of the Reverend H. Boyd, to each plate.
Contributors: Piroli, Tommaso, ca. 1752-1824; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.; Boyd, Henry, d. 1832.
Series: Blake -- no. 1049
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ...
Published: 1807
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. -- Illustrations.; Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Illustrations
Genres: Illustrations.; Illustrations
Other titles: Compositions from the Hell, Pvrgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri; Compositions from the Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri; Flaxman's compositions from Dante; Compositions from the Hell, Purgatory & Paradise of Dante Alighieri
Notes: Added t.-p., engraved: Compositions from the Hell, Pvrgatory and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri, by Iohn Flaxman, scvlptor. Engraved by Thomas Piroli, from the drawings in possession of Thomas Hope, Esqr. 1793.

Platemark size: 16 x 21 cm.

Gift to Victoria University Library (copies 1 & 2). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Captions in Italian and English

Victoria University Library copy 1 has bookplate of Mary. Eliz. Moses; binder's spine title is Flaxman's compositions from Dante.

Victoria University Library copy 2 is bound in original boards with paper label pasted on front cover; also has torn printed catalogue description of the 1793 ed. pasted on front cover; has armorial bookplate of "The Rev. W.M. Gunn, B.D. Smalleburgh, Norfolk; on back fly-leaf is a pencil note claiming that this copy was a gift from Flaxman to the Rev. W. Gunn; copy 2 has binder's spine title: Compositions from the Hell, Purgatory & Paradise of Dante Alighieri.

Victoria University Library copy 2's paper has watermark date 1803 on 48 plates and LEPARD 1803 on plates 4, 7, 14 of the first group; copy 2 is trimmed to 25 x 35 cm.