[Rarebooks] FS: Officina Bodoni Caesar's THE GALLIC WARS Illustrated with wood engravings by Bruno Bramanti

[Charles Agvent]

CAESAR, Julius. THE GALLIC WARS. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1954. 
Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/4") bound in half rust-linen stamped in gold with 
a decorative wood-block paper made by hand by Antonio Gabbrielli of 
Montecatini. With a spirited new "first person" translation by John 
Warrington and a preface by John Mason Brown. Illustrated with 30 wood 
engravings by Bruno Bramanti. Printed and bound at the Officina Bodoni 
by Giovanni Mardersteig. Copy #1175 SIGNED by both the printer and the 
illustrator on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate on the front 
pastedown; spine sunned; lacking the plain dustwrapper. Near Fine in a 
Near Fine slipcase. (#018412)        $60.00

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