[Blake's Illustrations of Dante
By: Seven plates, designed and engraved by W. Blake; author of "Illustrations of the Book of Job," etc., etc
Published: 1824
Place of publication: Felpham, Sussex, England
Language: eng
Notes: Bound up as an oblong folio.

Some copies have the label pasted on the outer cover.

The plates bear no signatures nor any other lettering, except in the case of the first where Blake has lightly engraved in reversed writing: "The Whirlwind of Lovers from Dante's Inferno Canto V."

No. 56 in G. L. Geynes' Bibl. of W. Blake.
Table of contents: title: Plates: 1. The Circle of the lustful. Paolo and Fracesca.; title: 2. The Circle of the corrupt officials. The Devils tormenting Ciampolo.; title: 3. The same. The Devils mauling each other.; title: 4. The Circle of the Thieves. Agnolo Brunnelleschi attacked by a sixfooted serpent.; title: 5. The same. Buoso Donati attacked by a serpent.; title: 6. The Circle of the Falsifiers. Dante and Virgil are holding their noses because of the stench.; title: 7. The Circle of the Traitors. Dante's foot striking Bocca degli Abati, who is frozen into the ice.