OFFICINA BODONI -- Collection of Nine Specimen Sheets (Schmoller 12, 2, 4, 8, 6, 7, 10, 14 & 9), each with pencilled title at foot of first page, with a printed index and in printed wrappers with 'Officina Bodoni Verona' printed on upper wrapper, with the vellum upper cover and spine of Michelagnolo's Poesie and Shakespeare's The Tempest mounted on card. Original brown cloth folder, press's device in gilt on upper cover. EXTREMELY RARE choice of nine specimens of books printed by Mardersteig at Montagnola between June 1923 and July 1925. Not mentioned by Schmoller; but see his chapter on Montagnola (pp.xx-xxxi).
OFFICINA BODONI -- Collection of Nine Specimen Sheets (Schmoller 12, 2, 4, 8, 6, 7, 10, 14 & 9), each with pencilled title at foot of first page, with a printed index and in printed wrappers with 'Officina Bodoni Verona' printed on upper wrapper, with the vellum upper cover and spine of Michelagnolo's Poesie and Shakespeare's The Tempest mounted on card. Original brown cloth folder, press's device in gilt on upper cover. EXTREMELY RARE choice of nine specimens of books printed by Mardersteig at Montagnola between June 1923 and July 1925. Not mentioned by Schmoller; but see his chapter on Montagnola (pp.xx-xxxi).
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