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Officina Bodoni
The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work

Item date(s): September 1929

Frans Masereel  - (woodcuts by)
Hans Mardersteig  - (apologia by)


Pages: 79pp
Size: 305mm
Edition: #173/500

Sub-type: Bibliography

Place publication: Paris & New York
Publisher: Editiones Officinae Bodoni. At the Sign of the Pegasus

Additional notes:
Surprisingly the paper is bad leaving offsets on many pages.

Printed by The Officina Bodoni at Verona on Lafuma Rag Paper in the original types of Giambattista Bodoni.

The specimen pages included in the book were printed on the hand-press on hand-made paper.

Book-plate of Lee Edmonds Grove.

Twelve woodcuts by Frans Masereel: How a Book is Made at the Officina.

Ref: 3482







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