The format of the book bound in two volumes is printed in an edition of 25. It contains 41 etchings with bilingual text, all printed on Franklin White with each sheet measuring 25 x 19 inches.

These elephant folios were bound by hand at the Harcourt Bindery in Boston. The binding is one-quarter black Nigerian morocco (goatskin) tanned in England by the Harmatan Leather Company;  the cloth covering the boards is Italian-made Canapetta.

Each exterior, archival-quality slipcase is hand crafted at Portfoliobox, Inc. Providence, RI, and is also covered with Canapetta. Each slipcase is lined with Stonehenge, a domestically manufactured acid free printmaking paper.

These are signed and numbered in Roman Numerals I-XXV on the colophon page.

Each bound book contains one additional loose print, signed and numbered 1-25.

Michael Mazur’s forty-one etchings for The Inferno of Dante were made by the artist from 1997-2000 and printed by the artist and Robert Townsend at R. E. Townsend Editions in Georgetown, Massachusetts.

The Italian text is excerpted from the Meridiani edition, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and set in Adobe Weiss Italic.

The English verse translation by Robert Pinsky is excerpted from The Inferno of Dante, copyright 1994 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is set in Adobe Optima.

The type was printed by David Wolfe at Wolfe Editions, Portland, Maine.

The text & binding designs for both the book & the portfolio are by Anne Beresford, Boston.

PORTFOLIO FORMAT

IMAGES AND TEXTS

ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY

EXHIBITIONS

OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN

For more information, or to purchase a copy, contact:

Mary Ryan Gallery 24 W. 57th Street NY, NY 10019

info@MaryRyanGallery.com or  mbzur@comcast.com

copyright © Michael Mazur and Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1993/2003