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BODONI PRESS (OFFICINA BODONI). The Nymphs of Fiesole... with the woodcuts made by Bartolommeo di Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassambled and cut (by Fritz Kredel). Verona (Editiones Officinae Bodoni) 1952.

4:o (280x190 mm.). Woodcut illustrations after Bartolomeo di Giovanni.
Publisher´s half vellum, gilt filets, spine lettered in gilt, upper edge gilt, otherwise uncut. Printed in Griffo type on hand-made Fabriano paper in 225 numbered copies, this is number 13.

This is one of three books for which Hand Mardersteig commissioned wood blocks by Kredel. The translations is from the first English edition of 1597 by John Goubourne.
The original poem was written about 1344-1346.

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6091

Datum:

2016-12-20

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