Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

BOEHMER. – (Montano, Lorenzo). Bishop San Zeno – Patron of Verona.

With frontispiece and 2 smaller woodcuts by Gunter Böhmer, after a statue and the reliefs in the Basilica San Zeno. 14 pp., 2 leaves. Small folio. Orig. boards, in orig. slipcase. – Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1949.

One of 60 copies printed on Fabriano paper in Zeno 16 point by Giovanni Mardersteig, cut by Charles Malin. The Italian text on the life of the Saint was printed in 1937 as a first specimen of this new Zeno type. The three woodcuts by Böhmer show the smiling Saint and two scences of exorcisms conducted by him. – Added is a card inscribed by hand „With best wishes G. Mardersteig“. – Mardersteig 92; Officina Bodoni Verona, catalogue raisonnée (1965), 88. – Best.-Nr. 9684