6 volumes in 4° (mm 345x270), pp. 159; 160-327; 163; 164-329; 163; 164-321; paperback covered publisher protected by tissue guard with cardboard sleeves and slipcases made by Torriani bookbinders of Milan and illustrated with abstract compositions stamped in gold and red. With 100 color plates outside text reproducing Dali's original plates, printed in Paris on Rives paper under the direction of Raymond Jacquet. Beautiful copy, editorially loose-leaf. Complete with the three retained editorial control wrappers. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth Salvador Dali was commissioned to illustrate the Divine Comedy. It took the Master 9 years of work to bring to life the 100 watercolors that will be exhibited in Paris and transposed into woodcuts. Master Raymond Jacquet, under Dali's direct supervision, engraved 3,000 wooden plates to progressively imprint the 35 colors of each individual panel. In 1962, Adriano Salani Editore, planned in synergy with the Arti e Scienze publishing house in Rome, an edition of the Commedia in six books, two for each cantica, accompanied by Dali's plates. The partners chosen for the purpose are the best offered by the typographic and papermaking scene of the time: the Master Typographer Giovanni Mardersteig of the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, the Cartiere Enrico Magnani in Pescia, and the French Cartiere di Rives. Scientific supervision to the Opera is entrusted to 'the prince of the Italian language, Giovanni Nencioni, President of the Accademia della Crusca'.