Image size 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches 17 x 19 inches ...

My daughter Nora, no doubt wondering what all the fuss was about, said she would like for me to read her some Dante. So I opened the first cant of Inferno, and explained it as well as I could to her.

The first intimation that Gustave Dore was preparing designs ... For a large folio edition of DANTE's "Inferno" he designed seventy-six full-page illustrations of the most varied character ...