Lot 349
Officina Bodini
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
The fables of Aesop. Verona, 1973. 2 volumes, 8vo, number 96 of 160 copies, hand made paper, woodcuts recut by Anna Bramanti, hand coloured, green morocco backed vellum gilt, slipcase; Mardersteig, Giovanni The making of a book at Officina Bodoni. Verona, 1973. 8vo, presentation copy from Giovanni Mardersteig to John Brown, one of 300 copies, twelve woodcuts by Frans Masereel, original vellum gilt, slipcase; and 2 Bodoni catalogues (5)
Footnote
Note: Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Officina Bodoni press, Mardersteig reinterpretation of Giovanni Alvise's Verona printing in 1479. For the Bodoni edition the original woodcuts were recut by a contemporary engraver and coloured by hand, based on one of the three copies of the Verona Aesop in the British Library.
Cf. Barr, John The Officina Bodoni. London, 1978, number 91 in catalogue [pages 88-90].