DANTE ALIGHIERI - DORÉ (Gustave). Il Purgatorio [Il Paradiso]. Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1868. -2 parts in one folio volume, 423 x 306: (2 ff.), 389 pp. 60 plates. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, gilt lace framing the inside, gilt edges (Zaehnsdorf). Leblanc, pp. 80-81. Second edition of the Italian text alone of Dante's Purgatory and Paradise. It is illustrated with 60 wood-engraved plates after drawings by Gustave DORÉ (1832-1883), printed on a tinted background and under a captioned serpente. A full morocco copy by the famous English bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (1853-1930). Very rare in this condition. White marks and rubbing to binding. Book 30, corresponding to pages 117-120, is duplicated, the second is bound between pages 256-257.