Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1962. Quarto. 370pp. From an edition of 320 copies, this is one of 150 printed for Great Britain. Illustrated with woodblocks recut by Bruno Bramanti after the original illustrations by Bartolomeo di Giovanni in 1495. A brilliant edition, printed in Zeno type. Bound in red morocco with... More about The Holy Gospel According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
(Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1925). Small folio. 28pp. One of 275 copies printed on Fabriano handmade paper. This edition prints the original Latin text of the pact on which the Swiss Confederation is based, as well as translations of the pact into languages recognized in Switzerland: German, French, Italian, Latin, and... More about Primum Pactum Confoederationis Helveticae MCCXCI
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1944. Quarto. 354pp. One of 165 copies. Contains the original Italian text of 150 sonnets, with German translations by Rudolf Freiherr von Simolin, Hans Rheinfelder, and Otto Freiherr von Taube, printed on the facing pages. Mint in linen-backed decorated boards and cardboard slipcase. (Mardersteig 64). More about Sonette
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974. Tall octavo. (58)pp. One of 150 copies. Contains the English text, which was translated from the Latin by Betty Radice. Unlike the rare incunable from which this text is taken, which was printed in 1489 by Paulus Fridenperger, Mardersteig here makes use of several beautiful decorations... More about A Letter in Praise of Verona
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1969. Octavo. 151pp. One of 125 copies. Illustrated with a medal of young Bembo as a title device, a fold-out reproduction of "Il Noniano," an engraving from "Bembo's Works," Venice 1729, and a facsimile of leaf Aii of Bembo's "De Aetna," printed by Aldus in 1496. The... More about Petri Bembi De Aetna Liber & Pietro Bembo On Etna
(Milan): Officina Bodoni, 1968. Oblong 12mo. (14)ff. From an edition of 80 copies, this is one of forty printed for André Jammes, the French antiquarian bookseller. With a New Year's greeting inscribed on the first free endpaper from Jammes and his family. A beautifully printed Christmas alphabet book with red... More about In Die Festo Natalis, Et Circuncisionis Christi, Sapphicum Alphabeticum
(Verona): Officina Bodoni, 1989. Octavo. 10pp. One of 50 copies, printed as a keepsake on behalf of James L. Weil. Blue initial "O", else printed in black Dante type. Bound in blue paper wrappers with silver titling. Hardly noticeable creasing to corners, fading and few stains to covers, else very good. More about To Charles Cowden Clarke
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1968. Octavo. (31)pp. One of 200 copies. Printed for Gallery 303 as a keepsake to remember a lecture given at New York by G. Mardersteig at the Morgan Library on 25 November, 1968. A handsome and selective collection of Bodoni typefaces. In green wrappers. Minor bumps to corners, else fine. More about On G. B. Bodoni's Type Faces
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974. Octavo. 49pp. One of 300 copies. Printed in two colors on handmade Magnani paper. Contains twenty-three songs, plus "The Phoenix and the Turtle," which was published separately. Attractively bound in morocco-backed green patterned cloth. T.e.g. Fine, in gray silk slipcase. Prospectus and offset of prospectus laid... More about Songs from Shakespeare's Plays
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1924. Quarto. 151pp. One of 224 copies. Shakespeare's late, iconic comedy, printed in Catania, an original Bodoni type, on Fabriano handmade paper. Book designed by G. Mardersteig. Bound in green-dyed vellum over boards, with the Press's device stamped in gilt on the front cover. Upper board slightly... More about The Tempest
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1968. Folio. (96) (iv) pp. From an edition of 114 copies, this is one of 105 on Magnani paper, signed by the artist, Giacomo Manzù, on the colophon page. This copy also bears a contemporary inscription from Manzù on the front endpaper. Illustrated with seven full-page etchings... More about King Oedipus
(Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1963). Quarto. (350)pp. One of 275 copies printed in Italian. Wood-engraved title page by Reynolds Stone and 114 woodcuts from the Epistole et Evangelii (1495), newly cut by Bruno Bramanti and Italo Zetti. Mardersteig conjectured that the series of woodcuts that graced one of the "rarest and... More about I Vangeli Secondo Matteo, Marco, Luca, Giovanni
Paris: Officina Bodoni for the Pegasus Press, 1929. Quarto. 30pp., (51)ff. One of 175 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni. With an Introduction by Henry Thomas and descriptive notes by Stanley Morison. Following these are forty-nine facsimile leaves in collotype reproducing the surviving text and plates of Brun's two writing... More about The Writing Book of Andres Brun, Calligrapher of Saragosse
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. Quarto. xxvii, 106pp. One of 160 copies printed on handmade Amalfi paper. This reprint of Torniello's alphabet includes a reproduction of the title-page portrait of Torniello, newly engraved after Guillaume Le Signerre by Leonardo Farina; a facsimile of the geometrically-constructed alphabet; and a comparison of Torneillo's... More about The Alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara [1517] Followed by a Comparison with the Alphabet...
