Lazzaro Spallanzani - Scilla and Cariddi
Etchings by Vincenzo Piazza
In-folio edition, loose sheets on Magnani 651 hand-made paper, hand-written texts in Garamond type and printed with a hand press.
Dimensions: 50.5 X 35.5 cm, 30 pages.
Reggio Emilia, Mavida, 2015.
Circulation
In 33 copies numbered in Arabic numerals, plus XXIII numbered in Roman numerals (the latter with the etchings printed on an Oxford back).
Peculiarities
Five full-page etchings signed in pencil by the artist and one in the frontispiece imprinted on a blue background and with several original linocuts by the same artist in the endpapers printed in blue, all collected within the cover on
Ambara paper and editorial case.
Insights
Edition created for the centenary of the birth of Dino Prandi, great bookseller and friend, first and unsurpassed bibliographer of Lazzaro Spallanzani.
Winning edition of the Liberbook Prize, Parma, 2015.
€ 500 Copy in Arabic numerals
€ 700 Specimen in Roman numerals
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Lazzaro Spallanzani - Scilla and Cariddi
Etchings by Vincenzo Piazza
Printing
In-folio edition, loose sheets on Magnani 651 hand-made paper, hand-written texts in Garamond type and printed with a hand press.
Size
50,5x35,5 cm, 30 pages.
Printed by Reggio Emilia, Mavida, 2015.
Number of copies
In 33 numerically numbered copies, plus XXIII numbered in Roman numerals (the latter with the etchings printed on an Oxford back).
Particularity
five full-page etchings signed in pencil by the artist and one in the title page imprinted on a blue background and with several original linocuts by the same artist in the endpapers printed in blue, all collected within the cover on Ambara paper and editorial case.
Insights
Edition created for the centenary of the birth of Dino Prandi, great bookseller and friend, first and unsurpassed bibliographer of Lazzaro Spallanzani.
Winning edition of the Liberbook Prize, Parma, 2015.
€ 500 Specimen in Arabic numerals
€ 700 Specimen in Roman numerals
