Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt / A Series of Pictures and Notes of Travel Illustrating the Adventures of a Modern Dante in the Infernal Regions; Also Other Pictures of the Same Subterranean World

A satirical, illustrated travelogue follows Hiprah Hunt, a zealous Dante enthusiast who disappears and returns claiming a journey through Hell, presenting sixty-eight cantos of mixed blank verse, prose, footnotes, charts, and pictures. The narrative stages humorous encounters and punishments tailored to contemporary social types—lawyers, politicians, inventors, entertainers, and other characters—framed as infernal offices, departments, and spectacles. Satirical vignettes and caricatures lampoon civic vice and personal foibles while alternating serious moral concern with comic relief, blending poetic pastiche, parody of Dantean motifs, and graphic plates to map an imaginative subterranean world.