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4 volumes, 4to (277 x 205). Half-titles, title-page to vol. I printed in red and black, engraved portraits of Elisabetta Patrowna and Dante Alighieri, engraved dedication leaf, 109 engraved plates, engraved illustrations at the end of each Canto, letterpress folding table. (Vol. III with repairs to lower corners of leaves 1 and 2 of gatherings 2O-2Z occasionally affecting a few letters on 3 leaves, occasional minor mostly marginal dampstain, without: list of subscribers Eee3-4 vol. I, list of subscribers Fff4 vol. II, .) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, smooth spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges sprinkled green (a few joints separating, chipping to spines and lettering-pieces).

A LARGE COPY OF THE FINE ZATTA EDITION, with plates after G. Zompini, M. Schiavone, F. Fontebaso, G. F. Marcaggi, M. Schiavone, G. Diziani, G. Magnini, G. Scaggiari, and J. Guarana.  Zatta's edition, the first substantial critical edition since the mid-sixteenth century, was the first to contain Giuseppe Pelli's Memorie per servire alla vita di Dante e alla storia della sua famiglia, considered to be the most substantial biographical essay about Dante of the eighteenth century. Morazzoni 225.