THE POETICON ASTRONOMICON.
- Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1985.
- 4to
- original pictorial cloth-covered boards, uncut, cloth slipcase
- 150 pages
Price: $2,000.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 142497
Privately printed in an edition of 140 copies (Allen Press Bibliography 51). Fine in fine slipcase.
Printed in orange, blue & black, hand-coloured title-vignette and initials, 48 illustrations after the woodcuts in Ratdolt's edition of 1482. The text typeface is Monotype Garamond Bold, set by Mackenzie-Harris, and re-set by hand; the display type is Solemnis, set by hand. The all-rag paper was handmade at the Barcham Green Mill, England, and printed damp on an 1882 Albion handpress. The woodcuts, although slightly enlarged, appear exactly as printed by Ratdolt in 1482, without retouching.
"From the standpoint of text, at least, we believe this to be one of our most important contributions." -Allen Press Bibliography, page 100
The Translation from the Latin is by Mark Livingston, B.A. Williams College, assisted by D. Neel Smith, University of California, Berkeley. the translation is based on Ratdolt's edition, corrected against Bernhard Bunte's variorum edition (Leipzig, 1875). Designed, hand-printed, and bound by Lewis & Dorothy Allen.