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Milan, G. Gnocchi - Padua, Tip. Salmin 1878. In 128°. 50 x 32 mm. Portrait of Dante on the frontispiece, splendid contemporary binding in blue morocco with gold decorations on the covers and spine, red edges. § [ Cesare Fenini ]. Galleria Dantesca microscopica . 30 photographs of Scaramuzza's drawings . Milan, Hoepli, 1880. In 128°. Title printed in red and black ink. With 30 photographs mounted on paper reproducing Scaramuzza's drawings. Contemporary binding in blue shagreen with gold decorations, red edges.
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SALMIN'S DANTINO, IN A SPLENDID BINDING FOR A REFINED BIBLIOPHILE.
First edition of the so-called «Dantino», one of the smallest books ever printed in movable type, which cost 5 years of hard work to the publisher Gnocchi and the Salmin brothers of Padua and is today considered a true and highly sought-after bibliographic curiosity. This microscopic edition of the Divine Comedy was printed in only 1000 copies with type cast in 1850 on commission by Gnocchi and destroyed in 1897 after the printing of Galileo's Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine.
Bondy 94: «The most widely discussed and the most sensational of all microscopic type-faces used in miniature books is undoubtedly the "fly's eye type", occhio di mosca used by the brothers Salmin in Padua for their Dante edition of 1878 and their Galileo of 1896». Later the ownership of this edition was acquired by the publisher Hoepli. Mambelli, 398: «Considered by Salmin to be the "most microscopically printed" book in terms of character and format»; Mikrobiblion 76.
II work, Bondy 95: «The photographs are of excellent quality and represent perhaps the earliest use of photography in a miniature book».
First edition of the so-called «Dantino», one of the smallest books ever printed in movable type, which cost 5 years of hard work to the publisher Gnocchi and the Salmin brothers of Padua and is today considered a true and highly sought-after bibliographic curiosity. This microscopic edition of the Divine Comedy was printed in only 1000 copies with type cast in 1850 on commission by Gnocchi and destroyed in 1897 after the printing of Galileo's Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine.
Bondy 94: «The most widely discussed and the most sensational of all microscopic type-faces used in miniature books is undoubtedly the "fly's eye type", occhio di mosca used by the brothers Salmin in Padua for their Dante edition of 1878 and their Galileo of 1896». Later the ownership of this edition was acquired by the publisher Hoepli. Mambelli, 398: «Considered by Salmin to be the "most microscopically printed" book in terms of character and format»; Mikrobiblion 76.
II work, Bondy 95: «The photographs are of excellent quality and represent perhaps the earliest use of photography in a miniature book».
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