Divine Comedy numbered

Description from Suntup Website

Suntup's edition of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is limited to two hundred eighty-one copies and is presented in three states: Numbered, Lettered & Roman Numeral. The edition measures 7¼” x 10¾” and is published in two volumes. Volume I includes the complete English translations of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso by Robert and Jean Hollander; and Volume II, a supplemental volume of over 1100 pages includes extensive and accessible introductions and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and research.

The text pages are set in the elegant Centaur type, a serif typeface by book and typeface designer Bruce Rogers, based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson around 1470. Volume I is printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson in Austin, Texas on his Heidelberg Cylinder, and Volume II is printed by offset lithography. The letterpress volume is printed in two colors on the title, contents, cantica title and canto pages. The ornament appearing on these pages was designed for this edition by Jerry Kelly and was cut in metal and cast by Ed Rayer at Swamp Press. Interior design & typography is by Jerry Kelly and each state is printed on Mohawk Via Laid, mouldmade Hahnemühle Ingres and handmade Velké Losiny respectively.

Also included in Volume I are four tipped on illustrations by William Blake (1757–1827), and a portrait of Dante by Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), as a frontispiece to Volume II. William Blake’s watercolor illustrations were commissioned in 1824 by John Linnell, friend and patron of his last years, three of which feature as the frontispiece to each cantica. Blake’s 1800 portrait of Dante serves as the frontispiece to the edition. All copies are signed by Robert Hollander.

The Numbered state is limited to two hundred fifty copies and is a Millimeter style binding covered in a decorative paper printed with an historical design from traditional Renaissance Italian woodblock printed papers. Upper and lower edges are capped in blue goatskin from J. Hewit & Sons. The gold foil blocked spine label, and the head & tail bands are goatskin. Volume I is printed letterpress on Mohawk Via Laid Natural, and Volume II is printed by offset lithography. Weighing 10 lb, the edition is housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in a durable linen cloth with velour lined floors and a leather spine label.

Also check the other states of the book:

Lettered - Roman Numeral