Scope and Contents This book constitutes a recording of the Dante's Inferno layout, the paper to be used for the printed text, a listing of subscribers, and initial comments on the iconography for each canto. The lists of subscribers to the publication and financial payments are charted for each canto as the galleys were completed. A description of the illustrations for each canto and Justification de Tirage are written in two versions. In July 1982, in his prelude to this text, Phillips recalled finding a lavish, red, gilded edition of Dante's Inferno illustrated by Gustave Dore while collecting books for pulping for the World War II effort. It was one of the grandest books he had ever seen and stayed in his house for a while before it was taken to the depot. Phillips writes, "I learned how early one's destiny can be sealed or at least signposted...Actually before I knew this [story] I had already from reprints recycled many of Dore's illustrations in quite another way." Enclosed between several...