OFFICINA BODONI

Giovanni Mardersteig 8.1.1892 – 27.12.1977

London: The British Library, 1978. Four pages on one folded sheet (240 x 165 mm). Photographic portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. Item #403307

FIRST EDITION, Brooke Crutchley's copy, signed by him on title. Printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and the binding. To create a unity from these five elements in such a way that the result is not a passing product of fashio, but assumes the validity of permanent value – that should be our desire." Printed in Verona in Italic Dante designed by Mardersteig, for the exhibition at the British Library August-October 1978.

Price: $60.00