NY: Targ Editions, 1983. 6 1/2 x 10. 39 pages. Quarter cream cloth & blind-embossed terracotta boards. Fine in slipcase. Designed and illustrated by Antonio Frasconi with nine woodcuts, including one four panel folding woodcut of Venice, and a beautiful frontis portrait of Aldus printed in five colors. All were... More about The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
NY: Grolier Club, 1996. 9 x 12. An original signed & numbered woodcut of a sunflower behind barbed wire is tipped in. (94) pages. Oatmeal cloth titled in brown on the spine, paper label on upper cover. Fine in cloth slipcase. Signed by Frasconi on the half title. Deluxe version... More about THE BOOKS OF ANTONIO FRASCONI, A Selection 1945-1995
(South Norwalk, 1967). 15 x 21 1/2. 36 leaves, with the architectural woodcuts printed on French-fold leaves. Printed in black, red, green, blue, purple, silver, & gold. Green cloth spine, boards covered in architectural woodcut printed in green on green marbled paper by the artist, marbled endpapers, cover title printed... More about Quattro Facciate
(South Norwalk, Winter 1994-1995). 9 1/2 x 12. Twelve leaves of color woodcuts and xylographic text in brown. A full page portrait (head) of a native American in earth tones faces a full page owl in purple & black, followed by seven double-spreads of a poem and an owl, concluding... More about SOUNDS OF NIGHT: The American Indian and the Owl
(South Norwalk, 1969). 9 1/2 x 13. Twelve fascicules in cloth tray case covered with paper marbled by the artist. There are 10 color woodcuts: two are double spread on full sheets folded twice; 8 are smaller woodcuts mounted on the larger sheet. The double-spread of Isola di San Giorgio... More about VEDUTI DI VENEZIA
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1963. 6 x 9. Original signed color woodcut "Self-portrait after Hieronymous Bosch" is tipped in as a frontis. (34) pages illustrated. Bound in wraps which are another original woodcut "Summer Flowers," printed from the woodblock. This wraps around the covers and onto the flaps. Near fine... More about The Work of Antonio Frasconi 1952-1963
(South Norwalk, 1959). 5 1/2 x 7 1/2. 17 leaves (most French-fold) including 11 woodcut portraits (one double-page) by Frasconi. Boards covered with a woodcut by Frasconi. Fine in glassine. One of 250 signed copies, printed from the original woodblocks at the Spiral Press in black & red on handmade Goyu paper. More about THE FACE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
