Review of The Shadow of Dante

This is not a pulp magazine cover but a nineteenth-century book-review publication — a bound, text-only journal bearing no illustrated cover art, no masthead typography of the dime-fiction variety, and no painted scene to describe. Review of The Shadow of Dante (1872) belongs instead to the Victorian literary-critical tradition: sober, column-set prose engaging Maria Francesca Rossetti's guide to the Commedia. The pulp magazines that would later forge science fiction, weird horror, and hardboiled crime did not emerge until the 1890s–1920s. No cover image is present here to catalog.