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ARCIMBOLDO: With An Essay By Achille Bonito Oliva

By BARTHES, ROLAND And John Shepley (Transl)

Copy No 76 of 3000 copies.signed by Ricci. In black solander box, which has scuffs on spine 10. 6, 3mm. Paper title on spine. Decorative eps.130pp on hand-made paper: ; From p17 to p 113 there is a tipped-in illustration facing text on the opposite page. From there to the end there are “Drawings for a Tournament in Honour of Rudolf II,”dated MDXXXV (1535); followed by 13 pages depicting the manufacture of silk. Page 175 is a folding sheet equivalent to 5 standard pages depicting a procession of medieval figures