Photoengravings used in The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1955.

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Photoengravings used in The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1955.

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Thirty-one photoengravings used in printing illustrations for The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri (New York: Bruce Rogers & the Press of A. Colish, 1955). Printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies, the volume contained a translation by Charles Eliot Norton, with illustrations by Rogers after designs by Botticelli. Rogers referred to this project as "the most important book of my life." - Blumenthal, Bruce Rogers, p. 186. Twenty-two small photoengravings of decorated initials and one photoengraving of the colophon page device containing Bruce Rogers' initials. Gift of A. Colish, 1991.

54 photoengraving plates ; 36 cm and smaller.

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957

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Indiana-born American book designer for the Riverside Press. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Danbury, Conn., to Mary Herrick f the Boston University Library, 1950 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270865113 Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), American typographer and book designer. From the description of Photoengravings used in The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1955. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 435687901 From the description of ...

A. Colish (Firm)

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American fine printer and publisher Abraham Colish (1882–1963) immigrated with his family to the United States from Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he took an after-school job with a small printing shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Over the next few years, his duties progressed from sweeping the shop and selling papers to feeding the press and composing type. When he was sixteen, Colish and his mother moved to New York Cit...

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

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Prolific poet, Florentine exile, and advocate of the Italian vernacular's destined role in the diffusion of literature, philosophy, and political thought. Dante's Divine Comedy proves its importance as a testimony to the beliefs, customs, and the contemporary experience of the late medieval period whose sense of vision prefigures the first signs of Renaissance civilization. This collection original works, criticial works, and memorabilia remains the largest of its kind outside of Italy (Enciclop...