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Sealts Number 173a
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| Author: |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. |
| Title: |
Dante's Divine Comedy: The Inferno. A literal prose translation, with the text of the original collated from the best editions, and explanatory notes. By John A. Carlyle. |
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1849, or New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. |
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Reissued, with new imprints, in 1851, 1855, and 1858. |
Sealts
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173a |
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Owned or borrowed by Herman Melville. |
| Location: |
Not known to survive. |
| Notes: |
Either owned or borrowed by Melville, as indicated by his annotation in Sealts No. 174: "'And sounds of hands among them' John Carlyle's version of the line"—referencing Henry Francis Carey's translation of Dante's line in the opening of Canto III, "With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds" (See Sealts No. 174, 13). |
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