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Milan, Hoepli, 1878. In 128°. 52 x 32 mm. Portrait of Dante on the frontispiece, splendid bibliophile binding in red morocco with gold decorations, gilt edges, signed Zaehnsdorf . On the back cover Ex libris MA Elton` [Mary Augusta Elton]; copy G. Martini.
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EXAMPLE OF THE DANTINO SALMIN IN A SIGNED BINDING, AND OF ILLUSTRIOUS PROVENANCE.
Second issue of the first edition. The Milanese publisher Ulrico Hoepli purchased from the Tipografia Salmin of Padua the sheets of the Dantino brought to light by the publisher Gnocchi in 1878, and published them with a new frontispiece in his name in the same year.
Bondy, pp. 94-95. Mambelli, 398: "Microscopic edition of the Divine Comedy and one of the smallest books printed with movable type that today forms a bibliographical curiosity".
Second issue of the first edition. The Milanese publisher Ulrico Hoepli purchased from the Tipografia Salmin of Padua the sheets of the Dantino brought to light by the publisher Gnocchi in 1878, and published them with a new frontispiece in his name in the same year.
Bondy, pp. 94-95. Mambelli, 398: "Microscopic edition of the Divine Comedy and one of the smallest books printed with movable type that today forms a bibliographical curiosity".
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