[BINDING]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). L Enfer. Paris: Hachette, 1861. STAMP-SIGNED BY CHATELIN 1

[BINDING]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). L 'Enfer. Paris: Hachette, 1861.   Folio (420 x 302 mm). Half-title, frontispiece and 75 full-page wood engraved plates by Gustave Dore. 19th-century citron morocco, sides with Grolieresque strapwork onlays of green, navy, plum, and purple morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands with morocco onlays to a similar pattern gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, red doublures with gilt concentric rectangle pattern, red watered silk endleaves with all-over gilt floral tooling in a diaper pattern, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY CHATELIN 1868 (some very slight rubbing or soiling); cloth folding case. Illustrated edition of Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Dore which, according to Gordon Ray, employ "perhaps Dore's subtlest design" (The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 246). Carteret III, 184 ("Un des livres de Dore les plus rares"). IN A FINE 19TH CENTURY BINDING BY ANTOINE CHATELIN.   Property from the Collection of Mr. Mark Frank