The interior, the paper and the artwork all in excellent condition besides one of the juxtaposed photographs (Filippina Lippo) removed from the manuscript with some residue of the photograph remaining and some of the photographs with some dogears and minimal discoloration. The binding rubbed and with some small damages, in need of some minor restoration but overall still very good. The manuscript is on excellent paper, watermarked O.W.P. Binding by Douglas Cockerell, signed 'WHS', during his directorship of W.H.Smith & Son (1905 - 1914). Hardcover / Binding in full green morocco with lettering and Dante's head as bronze sculpture per inlet to front cover. Dante Alighieri / Cockerell, Douglas / North, John William / Ashendene Press Circle / The Folio - size manuscript is massive and has 216 pages, of which 109 pages are with illuminated, original watercolour-paintings in the style of the medieval masters, sometimes collages with watercolour and original e The manuscript is a strictly themed Dante Devotion and is of magical quality if one considers the fantastic, original calligraphy artwork, the composition of the manuscript and the coded meaning to the composer of this manuscript. The Manuscript is titled: 'Pictures Illustrating The Pilgrimage of the Divine Poet Through The Realms of Punishment of Penance and Peace' - Illuminated Devotional Manuscript of section of 'L'Inferno / Inferno' - 'Purgatorio' - 'Il Paradiso / Paradiso' - with excerpts of Dante's Divina Comedia, in the style of medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Divina commedia by dante alighieri