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One of the most beautiful printed books ever published : Divine Comedy by Dante with colored illustrations by William Blake. Fine paper. William Blake : The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy. 2014. Catalog. Colored illustrations - including folded. Facsimiles. - William Blake : The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy - By Sebastian Schutze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli. Florence : Taschen, 2014. 323 [1] pp. Fine paper. Hardcover - covered by cloth. 40.5 cm., very few stains. Catalog. Colored illustrations [most] - including folded. Facsimiles.  William Blake - 1757-1827. was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his ”prophetic works” were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form ”what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language”. One of the most beautiful printed books ever published!