Jacovleff and Other Artists: Alexandre Jacovleff, William Blake and Other Illustrators of Dante – Thomas Rowlandson, Aubrey Beardsley, Marcus Behmer, Arthur Rackham, Herman Struck, Anne Goldwaite

First edition.  xiv, 236pp, including 60 monchrome plate illustrations.  Blue publisher’s cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine and upper panel.  8vo.  Ex lending library with usual markings on endpapers.  Cloth covers rubbed and bumped on corners and spine ends, faded around edges and spine, worn and dull, call label affixed to spine.  Some mild toning and soiling on endpapers else internally neat, clean and tight.

Focussing on the art of classical painter Alexandre Jacovleff (1887-1938) and his illustrators of the work of Dante but also including the work of other artists and illustrators who have illustrated Dante, this volume includes beautiful plate illustrations.