Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Tom Phillips (artist)—Dante | Inferno, Talfourd Press, 1983, 3 volumes, copy number 68 of 100

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Tom Phillips (illustrator)


Dante's Inferno. London: Talfourd Press, 1983


LIMITED EDITION, COPY NUMBER 68 of 100 copies of the standard edition (from a total edition of 185 copies), 3 volumes, folio (412 x 312 mm), containing the complete set of 139 etchings, lithographs, and screenprints, on Inveresk mould-made wove paper watermarked "Tom Phillips", each initialled on lower-right-hand margin, colophon signed, dated, and numbered by the artist in purple ink, original half-vellum over green cloth boards by Pella Erskine-Tulloch, top edges gilt, others uncut, housed in original slipcase, slipcase lacking 2 leather ties

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