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This catalogue was issued as a limited edition of 500 copies of which 5 were reserved hors de commerce for the author. It
was printed and bound in Florence, Italy on Larius Fine Art Gloss 250 gsm fine art paper by KBA Planeta-Rapida 105
litho presses in six colours. Black and white illustrations were printed in four colours.The typefaces used in the body of
the text were designed by the early twentieth century British designer Eric Gill and are Perpetua, while the title pages
are set in Sabon and Perpetua.The capitals and embellishments are Eric Gill’s ITC Golden Cockrell.

The cover and the catalogue were designed by MATTHIESEN.The cover is bound in Garda Matt 135 gsm.and the
cover detail is the Cupid from Blanchard’s Venus and Adonis.
The endpapers are derived from an original marbleised paper binding on Tubera Terrae by Johannis Bernardi Vici,
Rhetoricae Professoris, ex Typogaphia Regia,Taurini MDCCLXXVI (Turin 1776).

The text was written by Christopher Wright & Andrea Gates.

Photographic credits: Prudence Cuming Associates, London.
Production by Fiorepubblicità, Florence.

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