Dante Alighieri. [Opere]La Divina Commedia con varie annotazioni..., 4 vol. only, half-title with 'avviso a' legatori' verso, first title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, title vignettes, dedication f., portrait of the dedicatee Empress Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia, portrait of Dante, 107 plates only by Magnini, Rizzi, Crivellari and others after Fontebasso, Zompini, Schiavonio and Marcaggi, argomento at head of each canto, initials and tail-pieces, vol.3 water-stained, a couple of ff. with small section of lower blank corner torn away, all vol. occasional spotting and light staining, contemporary mottled calf, spines lacking all labels, rubbed and scuffed, [Mambelli 65; Morazzoni p.225], 4to, Venice, Antonio Zatta, 1757-1758. sold not subject to return.

⁂ The important Zatta edition, which is the first substantial critical edition since the mid-sixteenth century, and the first illustrated edition to be published since 1596. It is the first edition to contain Giuseppe Pelli's Memorie per servire alla vita di Dante e alla storia della sua famiglia.