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Thursday 04 July 2024 e Friday 05 July 2024, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Libro d'artista - Trilussa [Carlo Alberto Salustri]

Fables of Trilussa. Drawings and friezes by Duilio Cambellotti., 1920

Estimate

€ 600 - 1.000

Sold

€ 839

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Information

Rome, "Novissima" Publishing Company, 1920. In 2nd. Work completely decorated by Duilio Cambellotti with numerous polychrome woodcuts in the text and 30 full-page plates. monogrammed and protected by tissue paper. Editorial binding in embroidered silk, front plate decorated with stylized trees and plants embroidered in silk of different colors on an orange background, AMVF monogram in the spiderweb in the lower left corner. Internal zipper damaged. In a slipcase covered in marbled paper, with slight abrasions.


Specialist Notes

Exemplary of this collection of Fables of Trilussa (1871-1950), imaginative versifications based on the model of Aesop's fables, masterfully illustrated with drawings and friezes by Duilio Cambellotti.