De Divina Proportione
Features
Author: Luca Pacioli
Publisher: Mediobanca
Place of printing: Milan
Year of publication: 1998
Necklace: Fontes Ambrosiani in lucem editi cura et studio bibliothecae ambrosianae XXXI
Product Condition:
Exemplary in excellent condition, in silent cardboard slipcase with repeated decorative motif: minor abrasions on the corners. Brown half morocco binding with gilt titles on the spine and linen plates: gilt fillet and golden section design, also gilt, impressed on the front plate, gilt fillet on the back plate. Golden head cuts, slightly frayed side and bottom cuts. Cards in excellent condition. Text in Latin and Italian.
Pages: XXIX,(1),247,(5)
Format: Fourth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 29
Width: 20
Description
Anastatic reprint of October 1998, in 240 copies numbered from I to XL and from 1 to 200 performed by Ottavio Capriolo on paper from the Magnani paper mills of Pescia (Number XL), of the historic 1956 edition edited by Giovanni Mardersteig. The printing of the Ambrosian codex was entrusted to the presses of the Bodoni workshop in Verona, with the 61 color plates printed by Annibale Belli in Milan. Splendid example of typographical excellence