Portfolio: "Physiologus Theobaldi Episcopi De Naturis Duodecim Animalium"

 

Rudy O. Pozzatti

  1925 - 2021 (biography)

1964  

Portfolio with 12 lithographs and 10 woodcuts 

20 x 27 1/2" full sheet, folded in half 

each signed in pencil, lower right of image 

279 of 325  

pencil titled & dated 

Geske 140 

antique-white wove Cartiere Enrico Magnani Pescia; woodcuts and text on BFK Rives. 

published 

Indiana University Press 

18649 

$1,500.00 

This portfolio has the Latin text with a translation by Willis Barnstone and was designed by George Sadek. The first 20 portfolios from the edition, with the lithographs printed on Inomachi Nacre parchment, are preferred and each contains and original drawing. 305 are from the regualr edition, such as this one. 25 additional presentation proofs have not been numbered. The 12, full sheet lithographs include: The Lion, The Eagle, The Serpent, The Ant, The Fox, The Stag, The Spider, The Whale, The Siren and The Honocentaur, The Elephant, the Turtle Dove and The Panther. All the lithographs are printed in black ink. The 19 woodcuts include: Bishop Theobaldus, The Ant, The Antlers of the Stag, The Honocentaur, Bishop Theobaldus, The Serpent, The Spider, The Whale and Bishop Theobaldus. All the woodcuts are printed in gray-green ink.