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Description
The book was designed to display the Leonard Baskin drawings on as large a sheet as possible while retaining readability of the text. While we originally had hoped to include the Italian text along with the English translation, the costs of so doing would have made he selling price too high.
Credits
Illustrator: Leonard Baskin
Author: Dante Alighieri
Translator: Thomas G. Bergin
Size: 8.75 x 13 inches
Pages: Volume I—390 pages; Volume II—374 pages; Volume III—380 pages
Quantity printed: edition of 6,000
Price: $75.00
Typeface: English Monotype Dante, 14D/18D with display in English Monotype Titling
Typesetter: Stamperia Valdonega
Printers: Stamperia Valdonega, Meriden Gravure Company (illustrations)
Printing methods: Letterpress, offset (iillustrations)
Paper: Antiqua, specially made for this edition by Cartiera Favini of Rossano-Veneto, Italy
Binder: H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Bancroft Lynnene spine and Curtis Tweedweave Brown sides, on .098 binder’s board
Paper supplies: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company, Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Slipcase: Brick and Ballerstein, Inc. in Curtis Tweedweave Brown, with labels printed by Silver-Laro Press
Publisher: Grossman Publishers, Inc. (New York, New York)
