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Auction archive: Lot number 14

BODONI, Giovanni Battista (1740-1813). Manuale tipografico . Parma: Presso la Vedova [Bodoni Press (Bodoni's widow and Luigi Orsi)], 1818.

Auction 13.06.2002
13 Jun 2002
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$11,867 - US$17,801
Price realised:
£16,730
ca. US$24,817
Auction archive: Lot number 14

BODONI, Giovanni Battista (1740-1813). Manuale tipografico . Parma: Presso la Vedova [Bodoni Press (Bodoni's widow and Luigi Orsi)], 1818.

Auction 13.06.2002
13 Jun 2002
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$11,867 - US$17,801
Price realised:
£16,730
ca. US$24,817
Beschreibung:

BODONI, Giovanni Battista (1740-1813). Manuale tipografico . Parma: Presso la Vedova [Bodoni Press (Bodoni's widow and Luigi Orsi)], 1818. 2 volumes in one, 4° (310 x 216mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by F. Rosaspina after A. Appiani, 3 folding sheets of music. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt-panelled covers stamped with the Botfield arms, gilt spine directly lettered and decorated with a repeat pattern of foliage, gilt edges. FINE COPY of the second edition, completed after Bodoni's death by Luigi Orsi, director of the printing house at Parma, for the typographer's widow. Volume I is devoted to roman typefaces, volume II to Greek and other exotic alphabets, ending with an array of printer's flowers. 'Ce livre magnifique offre les échantillons de plus de 250 caractères différents, tant latins que grecs, russes, orientaux et autres caractères étrangers, avec leurs italiques, majuscules, chiffres, signes typographiques et ornemens de tous genres qui y correspondent' states Brunet. While the typefaces may not all be equally beautiful, 'le tout ensemble donne la plus haute idée de la richesse de l'imprimerie de Bodoni, et présente une variété qu'on chercherait peut-être vainement dans tout autre établissment particulier du même genre.' About 290 copies were printed. Brooks 1216; Brunet I, 1027; Graesse I, p. 460.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BODONI, Giovanni Battista (1740-1813). Manuale tipografico . Parma: Presso la Vedova [Bodoni Press (Bodoni's widow and Luigi Orsi)], 1818. 2 volumes in one, 4° (310 x 216mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by F. Rosaspina after A. Appiani, 3 folding sheets of music. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt-panelled covers stamped with the Botfield arms, gilt spine directly lettered and decorated with a repeat pattern of foliage, gilt edges. FINE COPY of the second edition, completed after Bodoni's death by Luigi Orsi, director of the printing house at Parma, for the typographer's widow. Volume I is devoted to roman typefaces, volume II to Greek and other exotic alphabets, ending with an array of printer's flowers. 'Ce livre magnifique offre les échantillons de plus de 250 caractères différents, tant latins que grecs, russes, orientaux et autres caractères étrangers, avec leurs italiques, majuscules, chiffres, signes typographiques et ornemens de tous genres qui y correspondent' states Brunet. While the typefaces may not all be equally beautiful, 'le tout ensemble donne la plus haute idée de la richesse de l'imprimerie de Bodoni, et présente une variété qu'on chercherait peut-être vainement dans tout autre établissment particulier du même genre.' About 290 copies were printed. Brooks 1216; Brunet I, 1027; Graesse I, p. 460.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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