La Commedia

Overview:

• Title: La Commedia
• Author: Dante Alighieri
• Year: 1491
• Publisher: Pietro Cremonese
• Pages: 648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: La Commedia
• Notes:
  • Includes 100 woodcuts, commentary by Christoforo Landino.
  • Edited by Piero da Figino.
  • Full name of publisher: "Petrus de Plasiis, Cremonensis, dictus Veronensis".
  • Folio (12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 307 x 212 mm). 324 leaves, 61 lines and headline, roman letter, white-on-black woodcut initials, one hundred woodcuts in the text. The woodcuts used are enlarged copies of those used in the edition printed by Benalius and Capcasa on 3 March, 1491.
  • Information from Sotheby's auction house and from Heritage Book Shop, Los Angeles, CA. References given by them are: BMC V 270. Essling 532. Goff D33. GW 7970. Hain. Polain. Proctor. Sander 2314. HBS 65430.