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Milan, Hoepli, 1878. In 128°. 52 x 32 mm. Portrait of Dante on the frontispiece, splendid bibliophile binding in blue shagreen with gold decorations on the covers and spine , red edges.
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Second issue of the first edition. The Milanese publisher Ulrico Hoepli purchased the Dantino sheets brought to light by the publisher Gnocchi in 1878 from the Salmin printing house in Padua and published them with a new frontispiece in his name in the same year. Bondy, pp. 94-95. Mambelli, 398: "Microscopic edition of the Divine Comedy and one of the smallest books printed with movable type that today forms a bibliographical curiosity".
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