Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1955. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. Portrait of Dante (previously unpublished), 128 pages, plus 2 heliogravure plates. Initial letters in blue or red. Full citron morocco by the Officina Bodoni. Spine slightly darker at top & bottom. Fine in decorated paper over boards slipcase. One of 140... More about TRATTATELLO in LAUDE DI DANTE
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1968. 9 x 12. frontis portrait, xxxviii, 347 pages. Laid in is a 9-page English translation of Mardersteig's introduction. This also was printed at the OB. Orange Linson boards with paper spine label, dustwrapper with printed title. As new in green cloth slipcase, with prospectus. No. 167... More about Manuale Tipografico 1788
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. 6 x 9. 214 pages. Dürer's 36 woodcuts and the "Ecce Homo" on the title page are re-engraved by Leonardo Farina. Quarter tan pigskin, top edge gilt. Publisher's note laid in. Fine in slipcase. Regarded as his masterpiece, Dürer's "Passio Christi" is termed "little" as its... More about The Little Passion
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1961 (London: Faber & Faber). 8 x 11 1/4. (9), 11- 52, (1 ) pages. Vellum-backed marbled boards with matching slipcase. The slipcase was too tight for both for this publication and the Four Quartets which was issued in a similar format; it has usually split with... More about THE WASTE LAND
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1967. 6 x 10. 200 pages. Quarter light blue morocco, top edge gilt. Spine evenly faded, all else fine in slipcase. One of 165 copies. The 19th century translation into Italian is by Giacomo Leopardi. Handsomely printed in Centaur types, with some Greek key borders in blue & yellow. More about MANUALE DI EPITTETO con pagine dello stesso dalle Diatribe
Verona: Officina Bodoni, (1960). 6 x 9. 140 pages, 5 plates (one double). Mardersteig's 60-page introduction is followed by the first treatise on the construction of Roman letters (ca. 1460). The 25 letters are hand-colored in two colors (after the original manuscript) with corresponding construction grid on facing verso. 140... More about ALPHABETUM ROMANUM. Edited by Giovani Mardersteig
Verona, 1970. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 117 pages. Vellum-colored Linson boards. Very tiny bump at rear spine foot. Fine in stiff paper slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies. Facsimile of this 15th c. novella (its first printing), with an English translation by Martin Faigel, and an essay on Feliciano by Giovanni Mardersteig. More about IPPOLITO E LIONORA. From a Manuscript of Felice Feliciano in the Harvard College Library
(Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1968). 4 1/2 x 3 1/2. (24) pages. Calligraphic initials from Vicentino's 1523 writing book are printed in blue. Vellum paper boards, paper slipcase. Fine copy of this pretty little piece. Laid in blank card is signed by Giovanni Mardersteig, One of 60 copies privately printed by... More about IN DIE FESTO EPIPHANIAE, Choriambicum Alphabeticum
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1924. 8 1/2 x 12. 75, (4) pages. Full dark red vellum with gilt title on spine, press device on cover. Spine is very faded, deckles a bit dusty, light extremity wear. Very good. One of 224 copies on handmade Fabriano. Printed in Bodoni's 20 point Cancelleresco... More about Das Roemische Carneval 1788
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1923. 8 x 12. 13, (2) pages. Putois marbled paper wraps with title label on upper cover. Original slipcase with press device on cover. A little wear to wraps, and offsetting from wraps to endpapers. Very good. One of 151 copies on handmade Van Gelder paper. Printed... More about Marienbader Elegie
Falkland: Duval & Hamilton, 1969. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2. 145 pages. Initials in blue. Quarter vellum & patterned boards,top edge gilt. As new in slipcase. One of 160 copies signed by Masereel, MacDiarmid, and Hans Mardersteig. Printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante types on Amalfi handmade paper. Schmoller 165. More about A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE
Duval & Hamilton (1977). 7 x 10. Engraved portrait, 34 pages. Booklabels of Harold & Nancy Hugo. Quarter vellum & blue pastepaper boards, top edge gilt. Fine in slipcase. No. 22 of 135 numbered copies printed at Officina Bodoni, in honor of the Scottish poet's 85th birthday. Printed on handmade... More about SELECTED LYRICS
Verona, 1973. 7 x 10. Two-page introduction followed by 12 full page woodcuts. Mardersteig's commentary is printed on each facing page. One leaf of contents. Wraps. Near fine. One of 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni. Masereel's woodcuts (which first appeared in the 1929 "Operation of a Hand Press")... More about The Making of a Book at the Officina Bodoni
Verona, 1968. 6 1/2 x 10. [34] pages including specimens. Grey Roma wraps. Near fine. One of 50 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on Cernobbio mould-made paper. This second printing, reprinted from the Gallery 303 keepsake, differs from the first "in that the 16 point specimen is taken from... More about ON G. B. BODONI'S TYPE FACES
Antwerp: De Sikkel and Paris: Pegasus Press, 1930. 5 1/2 x 8. xxiv and 58-page facsimile of Mercator's writing book. Green silk cloth, upper tips bumped, board edges have wear. Bookplate of printer Bill Jackson. Good copy. One of 200 copies, printed at the Officina Bodoni in Janson type on... More about THE TREATISE OF GERARD MERCATOR
Paris: The Pleiad, 1926. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. xxxvi pages printed throughout in an elegant italic letter. Marbled boards with spine label. Small glue marks on endpapers, all else fine in the uncommon slipcase with label & copy number. With the RARE 4-PAGE Announcement, printed mostly in the Vincenza... More about CRITO, A SOCRATIC DIALOGUE BY PLATO
Montagnola, 1924. 10 x 14. (24) pages. Vellum-backed Putois marbled paper boards. Light tip and edge wear to boards; small bookplate. Very good. One of 225. Text in printed in Bodoni Casale 20 pt. Roman on Fabriano handmade paper. Early 19th c. Italian poem on the deplorable condition of a.... More about DEI SEPOLCRI Carme di Ugo Foscolo
Verona, 1928. 7 x 10. xvii, 135 pages. Full vellum, gilt on spine & covers, top edge gilt, blue & red headbands and ribbon place marker. Fine, almost as new, copy of a book which never shows up. Number 19 of 209 copies printed on the handpress in original Bodoni... More about Contemplazione della Morte
Verona: (Officina Bodoni, 1932). 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. (10), 11-134, (8) pages. Original oatmeal cloth with gilt title on spine & upper cover. Light scattered foxing, mostly on end papers but a few very faint touches through page 12; all else fine in lightly soiled matching slipcase. No. 12... More about AMORES
New Directions, (1966). 7 1/2 x 11 1/2. 108 pages. Quarter vellum & yellow Roma paper boards. Fine, as new copy in paper slipcase which is slightly faded. An English translation of Guido Cavalcanti's poems, with a foreword, notes, and three essays by Pound. Cavalcanti was a 13th c. Tuscan... More about CAVALCANTI POEMS
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974. 7 x 10 1/2. 47 pages. Quarter green morocco & patterned green cloth, top edge gilt. Fine in mylar jacket and beige cloth slipcase, with two different prospectuses. No. 118 of 300 copies printed in Dante italic on handmade paper. Initial letters in red. Twenty-three songs... More about SONGS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. 10 x 13 1/2. 126 pages. Illustrated with 25 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel after drawings by Albrecht Dürer. Quarter vellum & cream boards. Fine, in green cloth slipcase, with prospectus. One of 160 numbered copies on Magnani mould-made paper with text in Mardersteig's Dante roman and... More about ANDRIA. A Comedy by Terence
London: Secker & Warburg, (1945). 8vo. 24 pages. Marbled wraps. Pinpoint foxing on top edges; upper tip of back wrapper & several adjacent leaves are very slightly bent. Very good copy in paper folder. Printed at the Officina Bodoni in Vincenza (Arrighi) type on Magnani paper. No. 296 of 500... More about Le Cimetiere Marin. The Graveyard by the Sea
Privately printed (at the Officina Bodoni, 1965). 6 x 9 1/2. 109 pages, tipped-in photo, tipped-in facsimile. Wood engraving of Celtic cross & gravesite of the Wasson family by Reynolds Stone. Compliments slip laid in. Quarter green morocco, top edge gilt. Fine. One of 225 copies, on Cernobbio handmade paper... More about That Gettysburg Address
