Bayros, Franz von - Dante Alighieri. The divine comedy. - La divina commedia. Color fantasies by Franz von Bayros. German by Otto Gildemeister. Edited by Karl Toth. 3 volumes. With 60 mounted color plates after watercolors by Franz von Bayros. Vienna, Amathea, 1921. 27.5 x 22 cm. Original full vellum volumes with gilt-stamped spine title, gilt-stamped cover vignette and full gilt edges (slightly browned). One of 85 (GA 1100) numbered copies of the special edition in full vellum, the printed dedication leaf in volume 1 with handwritten signature by Bayros. - German-Italian parallel text. - A very good copy. VAT: *

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