The “Cimelio” of Bodoni. The work and its printer in essays by Angelo Ciavarella, Corrado Mingardi, James Mosley, Bernard Chevallier.
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega/Boston: David R. Godine, [1991]. First American edition of this facsimile, printed for members of Hoc Volo. One of 400 copies letterpress printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine in the matching red board slipcase. Facsimile bound in full red leather with gilt spine and covers, all edges gilt. The companion volume of commentary bound in red boards, titled in gilt. Two volumes, folio. 95 ff. (facsimile); 73 pp. (commentary). Item #17429
A beautiful facsimile of a book first published in 1811 and dedicated by Bodoni to Napoleon and Marie Louise for the birth of the King of Rome. The book contains forty compositions in verse, printed in forty different typefaces, and accompanied by forty miniatures commissioned and colored by the Parmesan artist Antonio Pasini of the Academia di Belle Arti. The facsimile reproduces Napoleon’s copy, which was the only one hand-colored by Pasini.
Price: $400.00