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[BODONI, GIAMBATTISTA. 1740-1813.] ANACREON. C.582-C.485 BCE. The Odes. Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785]. image 1
[BODONI, GIAMBATTISTA. 1740-1813.] ANACREON. C.582-C.485 BCE. The Odes. Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785]. image 2
[BODONI, GIAMBATTISTA. 1740-1813.] ANACREON. C.582-C.485 BCE. The Odes. Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785]. image 3
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[BODONI, GIAMBATTISTA. 1740-1813.]
ANACREON. C.582-C.485 BCE.
The Odes. Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785].

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[BODONI, GIAMBATTISTA. 1740-1813.]

ANACREON. C.582-C.485 BCE. The Odes. Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785].
Folio (308 x 216 mm). Author portrait on title page, large armorial vignette on dedication page, text in Greek with commentary in Latin. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, elaborately gilt, watered silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, modern brown cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Spine slightly sunned, four tiny wormholes to joints, extremities slightly rubbed.
Provenance: Charles C. Kalbfleisch [American collector] (bookplates); Hugh Morriston Davies [British surgeon, 1879-1965] (bookplate).


LIMITED EDITION BODONI IMPRINT, one of 50 copies on fine paper, of a total print run of 310. Anacreon's works, imbued with delicacy and grace, come down to us only in fragments quoted by other authors or in the derived form of imitators. They did not find their way into print until after the middle of the 16th century. Bodoni, the most celebrated European printer of his era, was also the most important type designer and punchcutter in Italy during his day. He was responsible for some of the most graceful and immaculate books to be printed during the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, and this publication is to be counted among his most beautiful productions. Brunet I, 252; Graesse I, 111; Schweiger 25.

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