8vo. In three volumes. [8], li, [3], 280pp; [2], ix, [1], 286pp; [4], 271pp, [27]. With half-titles to each volume and a terminal index to Vol.III. Modern burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with the printed paper labels of the London Library, St. James's Square, to upper board of each volume. Very lightly rubbed. With the regulation book-label and barcode of the London Library to FEP and FFEP of each volume respectively. Frequent ink-stamps and shelf-marks of the London Library to initial and terminal leaves of each volume. Occasional light browning to leaves. Occasional pencilled annotations throughout.

The third edition of the Reverend Henry Francis Cary's (1772-1844) popular and influential blank-verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, much admired by Keats and Coleridge. Immensely respected among scholars, in part due to its influential literary patrons, a later translator of Dante, Charles Lyell (1796-1849), dedicated his work to the Rev. Cary as 'the unrivalled translator of the vision of Dante...with respect and esteem'.