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ASHENDENE PRESS – DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)

Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Auction dateClassic
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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United Kingdom, London
ID 1249778
Lot 187 | ASHENDENE PRESS – DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)
ASHENDENE PRESS – DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)
Tutte le Opere de Dante Alighieri Fiorentino. Chelsea, London: Ashendene Press, 1909.
Presentation copy of one of the three greatest Fine Press books, alongside the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer, which took three years to complete. This copy inscribed by the printer and founder of the Ashendene Press, Charles Harry St. John Hornby (1867-1946) to the Italian-British scholar Linetta de Castelvecchio (1880-1975) who produced an Italian revision of William Warren Vernon’s Dante in 1908. In 1916 Castelvecchio, who had moved to England from Italy in 1903, became a lecturer and head of Italian at King’s College London. In June 1921 Castelvecchio was elected to the Serena Chair at the University of Birmingham where she taught until her retirement in 1946. Hornby, Ashendene Press Bibliography 24; Franklin, The Ashendene Press, pp. 87-99 and 238; Tomkinson 26.

Folio (414 x 286mm). Limited edition of 111 copies, this being one of 105 copies on paper, printed in double columns, in Subiaco type, full-page woodcut frontispiece and 5 large woodcuts in the text by W. H. Hooper after Charles M. Gere, 3 smaller diagramatic illustrations in the text, headings and shoulder notes in red, large initials in red designed by Graily Hewitt (minor spotting, one or two dust-stains). Publisher’s cream linen-backed Holland blue boards, flat spine with printed paper label, uncut (label slightly chipped with a little loss, minor creases to spine, corners gently bumped). Provenance: Linetta de Castelvecchio (later Richardson, 1880-1975), presentation inscription from the printer on preliminary free endpaper: ‘A L. de Castelvecchio dono dello Stampatore C.H. St. J. Hornby. Luglio. 1909’ – Sensui Shoji (Japanese bibliophile and author, 1903-1991).
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