For sale is a set of original wonderful gold gilded Bradley and Hubbard bookends featuring Dante and Homer. These bookings are a match and have always been together in an estate home in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York. They are gilt over iron and circa 1910 in age.

They are in excellent condition with only age-appropriate wear to some of the gilding on the surface. The backs are each stamped with the Bradley and Hubbard logo. The original brown paint is in great condition.

Measurements;

6 5/8" tall x 6" wide.

Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he had a lasting effect on the Western canon.

Durante degli Alighieri  (1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. The first chapter of course being the infamous Dantes Inferno.