PHYSIOLOGUS THEOBALDI EPISCOPI DE NATURIS DUODECIM ANIMALIUM

(Pozzatti, Rudy)illus. PHYSIOLOGUS THEOBALDI EPISCOPI DE NATURIS DUODECIM ANIMALIUM (BISHOP THEOBALD'S BESTIARY OF TWELVE ANIMALS). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1964. Large folio, clamshell shell box in dark green morocco-backed gray-green cloth, with 42 pages of loose sheets containing Bishop Theobald's original text in Latin, and an English translation by Willis Barnstone, and twelve original lithographs, hors texte (10 of which are on double sheets) and ten original wood cuts, in-texte, by Rudy Pozzatti. Number 4 of 20 "Preferred Copies" of a total of edition of 350 copies (325 numbered, and 25 copies unnumbered for presentation). For the Preferred Copies, which each contain an ORIGINAL DRAWING (with this copy, a study for the Centaur) by Pozzatti housed in a separate folder. The lithographs, pulled at 11 Torcoliere in Rome, are printed on Inomachi Nacre Parchment (for the regular edition they are on Cartiere Enrico Magnani Pescia). The book was designed by George Sadek. The text was hand set in Emerson type and printed with the woodcuts from the original blocks on Rives paper by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral Press, New York. All illustrations are in black and white. The orginal version of this work is an incunable published in 1494. A handsome livre d'artiste, Fine throughout, except for a small abrasion to the cloth on the front panel of the box. Rudy Pozzatti is an American artist born in Colorado in 1925. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Hope School of Fine Arts of the University of Indiana. He is an internationally known printmaker, whose work is in many institutional and private collections.