Heading: (Birk, Sandow, artist)
Author: Dante Alighieri
Title: The Divine Comedy
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Trillium Press
Date Published: 2003-05
Description: 3 volumes. Illustrated with original lithographs by Sandow Birk printed by David Salgado on a Mailänder flatbed proof press. 35.3x27.7 cm (14x11"), each volume bound in full leather of various colors stamped in gilt. Includes:
Dante's Inferno. 2003. With 71 original lithographs. [2], xiv, 211 pp. No. 50 of 100.
Dante's Purgatorio. 2004. With 69 original lithographs. [2], xv, [1], 203 pp. No. 50 of 100,
Dante's Paradiso. 2005. With 69 original lithographs. [2], xix, [1], 203 pp. Clear slipcase. No. 50 of 100.
Each volume signed by Sandow Birk at colophon, as issued. Many of the full-page lithographs are individually signed by the artist. Sandow Birk is renowned for his nine-year project American Qu'ran in which he hand-transcribed the entire Qur'an according to historic Islamic traditions and illuminated the text with scenes from contemporary American life. Here is its Christian antecedent, his interpretation of Dante. "Birk's images, based on Gustave Doré's 19th century engravings, along with text translated in collaboration with Marcus Sanders, create a full-fledged and entirely new version of Dante's classic." Scarce together with all three volumes.

Fine.