Ratta Cesare Editor (5 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Hardcover copy. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Italian language text. Pages tanned, profusely illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. Limited Numbered Edition. 27pgs.of introduction including a profile of Cesare Ratta, the editor. 240 pages of 550 plates, mostly woodcuts in color and black and white by 66 Italian artists. Many are tipped-in. Decorative board covers. Some residual tape marks, chipping along the extremities. The blank verso of the first plate is detached, some looseness of one signature of pages. Fabulous reproductions of works that include astrological signs, portraits, scenes, ads in different styles. Text is in Italain. This is a limited edition of 850, this being #259. This is Volume III of a 9 volume set. Very scarce Size: Folio. Book.…

Softcover. Off-white wraps with red lettering and woodcut by Aldo Patocchi on front cover, spine has red lettering, 18 pp, pages A-P, 240 pp, illustrated in bw and color with many tipped-in color plates on cardstock. Errata slip laid-in. Text in Italian. This is volume 7 of a 9 volume set. Printed in edition of 500 copies. Compiled by and at the expense of Cesare Ratte, Director of the School of Typographic Art of the municipality of Bologna. Collection of woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, charcoals, watercolors, sanguine, white and black, etc. of 106 Italian artists, 240 tables and 410 drawings in black and color. Includes an index of the artists and number of tables where they are represented. Artists included: Enzo Bifoli, Guido Cadorin, Carlo Cainelli, Giuseppe Carois, Alberto Coppa, Nino Finamore, Giovanni Fumagalli, Francesco Gamba, Adolfo Magrini, A. Marcolongo, Bruno Marsili, Paolo Paschetto, Alberto Salietti, Gorgone Tanozzi, Reggio Venturini Venturino, Alberto Zanverdiani, and many others. Also includes an analytical index of the artists and the subjects of the tables. Good+ (overall shelf wear to wraps with small tears and staining, age toning lightly to pages but text and illustrations are all clear).…

Softcover. Off-white wraps with red lettering and woodcut by Aldo Patocchi on front cover, spine has red lettering, 18 pp, pages A-P, 240 pp, illustrated in bw and color with many tipped-in color plates on cardstock. Errata slip laid-in. Text in Italian. This is volume 7 of a 9 volume set. Printed in edition of 500 copies. Compiled by and at the expense of Cesare Ratte, Director of the School of Typographic Art of the municipality of Bologna. Collection of woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, charcoals, watercolors, sanguine, white and black, etc. of 106 Italian artists, 240 tables and 410 drawings in black and color. Includes an index of the artists and number of tables where they are represented. Artists included: Enzo Bifoli, Guido Cadorin, Carlo Cainelli, Giuseppe Carois, Alberto Coppa, Nino Finamore, Giovanni Fumagalli, Francesco Gamba, Adolfo Magrini, A. Marcolongo, Bruno Marsili, Paolo Paschetto, Alberto Salietti, Gorgone Tanozzi, Reggio Venturini Venturino, Alberto Zanverdiani, and many others. Also includes an analytical index of the artists and the subjects of the tables. We have several copies of this issue available. Good- (overall shelf wear to wraps with small tears and staining, May have minor tear at base of spine; age toning lightly to pages but text and illustrations are all clear).…

Softcover. Oversized cream wraps with color illustrations on front cover, black and red lettering, spine has red lettering, xxiii, (4), 232 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color with many color plates tipped-in on heavy card stock. Text in Italian. This is volume 5 of 9 volume set, with reviews by various authors. Edition limited to 500 copies. Work compiled by and at the expense of Cesare Ratta. Contains 238 plates and 390 drawings by 90 artists. Collection of etchings, lithographs, watercolors, sanguine charcoals, woodcuts, black and white, ex libris companies, symbols, etc. Includes index of the artists and number of tables in which they are represented. Artists represented: Angoletta Bruno, Dardo Battaglini, Piero Bernardini, Remo Branca, Duilio Cambellotti, Giulio Cisari, Adolfo De Carolis, Benvenuto Disertori, Ercoloe Dogliani, Francesco Gamba, Giuseppe Haas-Triverio, Adolfo Magrini, Gianni Mantero, Alberto Martini, Publio Morbiducci, Mario Reviglione, Giuseppe Rondini, Filiberto Scarpelli, Ferdinando Tamberlani, Adolfo Wild, and many others. VG (overal wear to wraps with small chips, tears and staining. light age toning to page edges as expected with age but pages are otherwise clean).…