YOUNG, Art.

£1,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Art Young's Inferno. First book form edition, number 279 of 1,000 copies, additionally signed by the author on the initial blank and in the rare dust jacket. A graphic-novel avant la lettre, Young's satirical interpretation of Dante's Inferno is a biting social commentary that uses the structure of Hell to expose the moral decay, corruption, and inequality of capitalist society. This is the last of three books published by Young and inspired by Dante, following Hell Up to Date (1894) and Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt (1901). The goal for this project was "to have fun with the old traditional Hell, and make it over with modern improvements - elevators, slot machines, barbed wire fences, etc" (Young, p. 16).The illustrations of the underworld are inspired by Gustave Dore's 1857 engravings.

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