[Rarebooks] FS: Officina Bodoni Holy Gospel

[Nina W. Matheson]

Greetings,
    We are please to offer for consideration:


Bible. The holy gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. [Verona, 
Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1962]. Original dark red oasis morocco. Fine in 
fine publisher's box. Of 320 copies, one of 155 numbered copies for 
America. This copy is signed by Mardersteig in pencil in the colophon. 
Giovanni Mardersteig / The Officina Bodoni, an Account of the Work of a 
Hand Press 1923-1977, item 126. Wood-engraved title-page by Reynolds Stone 
and 114 woodcuts from the Epistole et Evangelii, Florence, 1495, newly cut 
for this edition by Bruno Bramati. The Florence, 1495 edition of the 
Epistole et Evangelii is called by Mardersteig "among the rarest and most 
beautiful incunables illustrated with woodcuts". He notes that only two 
copies have survived.   Book #65607.     $3000.00