L'officina Bodoni - La regola e le stampe di un torchio durante i primi sei anni del suo lavoro

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Author:  Giovanni Mardersteig, Frans Masereel

Publisher:  Editiones officinae Bodoni

Place of printing:  Verona

Year of publication:  1929

Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Paper dust jacket with title on the spine and front cover; covers framed by repeated floral decorations: dust spots and abrasions at the corners; transparent adhesive tape to repair the cuts along the spine. Linen binding with gilded title on the spine and gilded image of the publisher's mark on the front cover; the binding is unglued in some places. Brown stain tracing the shape of the flaps corresponding to the external lateral margin of the first and last flyleaf, on the back of the loop, on the front of the title page and on both inside covers. Irregular lateral and lower cuts, browned, with traces of dust. Gilded head cuts. Well preserved cards, slightly browned. Text in Italian.

Pages:  (4),79,(5)

Format:  In fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  30
Width:  21

Description

This precious volume gives an account of the first 6 years of activity of the printing workshop founded by Giovanni Mardersteig: printed with unmistakable elegance, the volume opens with the Regola, which tells the meaning of the enterprise of recovery of the ancient printing techniques at the press desired by Mardersteig; followed by 12 original woodcuts by Frans Masereel accompanied on the facing pages by captions explaining how the volumes of the Workshop are created. Then 10 important published works are listed accompanied by Specimen applicati ft; then there are 2 specimens of prints made on external commission that have given life to new series of characters. Then the beginning of the publication of the Opera Omnia by D'Annunzio is announced with the specimen exemplifying the incipit of the Figlia di Iorio. The last plate is dedicated to typographical brands. The catalogue of all the publications of the Workshop follows. Colophon: The Italian edition of this text is printed by Officina Bodoni in Verona in 200 copies on Lafuma paper with original types by Giambattista Bodoni. The essays appended to the volume were printed with a press on various types of hand-made paper. In the autumn of MCMXXIX. Copy number 89.

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