1863 Rare Italian Vellum Book - La Vita Nuova di Dante Allighieri, The New LifeAuthor: Dante Alighieri. (edited and commented by G. B. Giuliani). Title: La Vita Nuova e Il Canzoniere. Publisher: Firenze, G. Barbra, Editore, 1863. Language: Text in Italian. Size: 4 x 2. 5 inches. Pages: xx 477 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good, beautiful and very well preserved bespoke full vellum binding, likely late 19th century. Smooth cream vellum with gilt monogram F. D of Flora Dunolly, to front board, elegant gilt geometric tooling

It's an exceptionally nice copy

Illustrations: Complete with numerous in-text engravings and plates after John Tenniel

The illustrator:  Arthur Rackham

(Harry Rountree

Title: Adventures in FAIRY-LAND

The publisher: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy (1585-1667) was one of the leading Parisian publishers of the seventeenth century

but it was not until he began drawing for children's literature that he received critical acclaim

The endpaper campaign maps by I

Title: Les Soirées du Château de Ramezay par l'École littéraire de Montréal

In a period where religion and science often intertwined

This 1855 edition

A classic of Victorian mythography