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001 $ 15/4939
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20240926153250.1
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Dante Alighieri
245 1 0 $a The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Inferno / $c a verse translation by Tom Phillips with images & commentary
250 # # $a London $b Talfourd Press $6 1983
300 # # $a [108] leaves ([432] pages), [139] leaves of illustrations : $b colour illustrations ; $c 42 cm. (Unbound in two solander boxes).
562 # # $a `The book is made up of thirty-four cantos, the title pages and the colophon. Each canto is on 3 sheets (12 pages), making a total of 108 sheets (432 pages) in the book. There are 139 illustrations. The page size is 16 ½ x 12 ½ inches (42 x 31.5 cm).

The book is printed on 100% rag, acid-free, mould-made Inveresk (Somerset) paper, 250 g.s.m., made and tinted to the artist’s own specification and incorporating his signature as watermark, by Inveresk Mills, near Wells, Somerset.

Typography by Ian Mortimer, and printed at IM Imprint, London.

Intaglio plates worked, proofed and editioned by Nick Tite and the artist at the Talfourd Press, between 1979 and 1983.

Lithographs worked and proofed by Nick Hunter at the Talfourd Press, and editioned at the Dog’s Ear Press, London between 1979 and 1983.

Silkscreens proofed and editioned under the direction of Chris Betambeau at Advanced Graphics, London between 1979 and 1983.

Additional silkscreens proofed and editioned by Brad Fane at the Coriander Press, London in 1982.’ [prospectus].

653 # # $a Artists' books
700 1 # $a Phillips, Tom $e source artist $e illustrator $e translator
710 2 # $a Talfourd Press $e publisher