Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phan... by Luigi Serafini

Very minor bumping to corners of clamshell. A couple of very minor spots to cloth on the upper joint. he first thing you need to know about the Codex Seraphinianus is that you cant read it. (c) Luigi Serafini / Courtesy of Rizzoli New York. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60. Italian artist Luigi Serafini gives us a look inside the 40th anniversary edition of his beautifully bizarre Codex Seraphinianus. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Illustrated cloth, gilt lettering, clamshell folder. An extraordinary and surreal art book, this edition has been redesigned by the author and includes new illustrations. pages, colour illustrations, 1 colour print. Codex Seraphinianus: 40th Anniversary Edition.

Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phan... by Luigi Serafini