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1880S GUSTAVE DORE ILLUSTRATING DANTE'S PURGATORY & PARADISE ILLUSTRATED 11X9. Bound in period Victorian cloth. OFFERED HERE is an 1880s illustrated edition, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Dante's Purgatory and Paradise, as published by the Cassell Publishing Co., New York. Large format 11x9 inches, 304 pages, with many full page prints by Gustave Dore. Bound in period Victorian cloth. Identified as a New Edition, whatever that meant. These are some of the most famous book illustrations ever. No date in the book, but definitely 1880s.