DALI Salvador, DANTE Alighieri, “La Divina Commedia”, Florence: Arti e Scienze Salani, 1964.

Folio, SPECIAL EDITION of 80 copies, in a UNIQUE BINDING with COPPER SCULPTURAL COVERS. As stated (in Italian) on a zinc plate attached on first volume pastedown, this copy is one of the only 80 produced apart the edition of 2900 and was reserved for Valeria di Vita. Also, the Paradiso volume had been supplied with leaves and plates from another volume after the original copy suffered damage from the great flood of the Arno River in Florence on 4 November, 1966.

Complete set of 6 volumes bound in 3 folio, printed on handmade paper by Fratelli Magnani and including 100 impressive colour plates of Salvador Dali.  

Bound in dark brown goatskin with titles in gilt on spines. Full-page copper relief sculptures in copper on each volume front cover. Brown calf slipcases. The slipcases worn with the slipcase of Vol.III cracked on most joints. The main books both exteriors and interiors in very fine conditions with just scattered light foxing and most of the plates bright and clean.

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