[Rarebooks] For Sale: Norton's "Dante" inscribed

[Norman Kane]

DANTE ALIGHIERI.  THE DIVINE COMEDY TRANSLATED BY CHARLES ELIOT 
NORTON. [3 VOLUMES.]  Boston: Houghton, Mifflin; Cambridge: Riverside 
Press, 1891-91-92.  First edition of this much-admired prose 
translation.  Octavos, original gold-stamped cloth, top edges gilt, 
one rear joint weak, otherwise a very good set.  INSCRIBED by Norton 
in volume one: "Eliot Norton with his father's love.  10 Oct. 1891," 
(the Dedication is dated 1. Oct. 1891.) (Norton had a wide 
acquaintance in the literary world here and abroad, and was for long 
a fixture at Harvard.)  $125.00  (Trade Discount 10%)

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