The Officina Bodoni : an account of the work of a hand press, 1923-1977: PB 64-2003

Place(s) associated

• Verona

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1980

Note

"This limited edition of ninety-nine copies numbered 1-99, as well as twenty six copies designated A-Z and not for sale, is accompanied by a second volume containing ten original leaves from hand-printed books of the Officina Bodini. It forms part of an edition of fifteen hundred copies, of which the design, composition, reproductions, and printing on Sarego paper were carried out by the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona"--Colophon. "This volume, of which there are one hundred and twenty-five copies, numbered 1-99 or designed A-Z, is made up of spare sheets of books printed on the hand press of the Officina Bodini and preserved in its archives. The ten four-page leaves may differ in each copy. The preliminary pages were set and printed in Verona by the Stamperia Valdonega."--t.p. verso of second volume. Both volumes are copy Q. Both volumes quarter bound in leather with tan cloth sides over boards. In slipcase with matching tan cloth.