This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. This print depicts a side silhouette of Dante's face gazing at disintegrating fleur-de lyes. The Humument text of this print reads, "the fire-flies vibrate, some near, some distant. ages among the A pennines - speak stances What grand stances - o Italy - If ever I do resent- my music of the conscious pen - the din the clatter - clatter of purpose pushed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.