Trials for Dante's Inferno

Trials for Dante's Inferno

Doves Press -- Miscellanea
Printing -- England -- London -- Specimens
Page proofs -- England -- London
Proofs (Prints by function) -- England -- London
Initials (Layout features) -- England -- London

Six trial settings comprising the only evidence that T.J. Cobden-Sanderson considered printing Dante's Inferno at his Doves Press. Each sheet opens to two small quarto pages numbered 4 and 5. The text is from lines 1-54 of Canto I (one sheet with lines 1-48 only). Numbered in ms on versos. One trial has two initials in red by Edward Johnston; another has eighteen, one at the beginning of each stanza. Initials are cut out and mounted in position, rather than printed as part of the text.

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922, printer
Walker, Emery, 1851-1933, printer

Triple Crown Collection

Doves Press

1907?

Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944

http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b6198219~S2

6 unnumbered double leaves ; 24 x 34 cm

Italian

Manuscripts

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