OLIPHANT, Margaret. Dante. FIRST EDITION. William Blackwood & Sons. (Foreign Classics for English Readers, edited by Mrs Oliphant.) 1877
Ad. leaf preceding half title. Orig. smooth green cloth, front board blocked & lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. dulled. Signature of Percival Waugh, 1877, on titlepage.
¶The first volume in a series of biographical works devoted to European literature. As well as editing the series, Oliphant contributed this work on Dante, and another on Cervantes. Other contributors to the series included Walter Besant (Rabelais), Henry M. Trollope (Corneille and Racine) and Miss Thackeray (Madame de Sévigné).
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