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Editore: Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, 1972
Da: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Zötl, Aloys (illustratore). First Edition. Milan: Franco Maria Ricci FMR, 1972. Limited to 3,000 copies, numbered and SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, Franco Maria Ricci, on the limitation page. Folio. In black "Orient" silk, with tipped-in color plate, impressed gold lettering and matching blacksilk clamshell case. 127 pp. with 73 color tipped-in fine color images. On hand-made paper, Ingres, pastel blue, manufactured by the renowned company Cartiere Miliani in Fabriano. Printed by Amoretti. Text by Julio Cortazar and Andre Breton translated into English by Flaviarosa Nicoletti Rossini, Giovanni Mariotti. A humble dyer from eighteenth century Austria, Aloys Zötl, reproduced in watercolours animals that he had only seen in natural history books, but these lifeless images did not satisfy him and so he created fantastical backgrounds to match the grace, ferocity, form and colour of each animal. André Breton discovered Zötl?s fabulous zoo in the 1950s, when a dealer brought the albums, which were then dispersed in two auctions, to Paris. Only after a long search was it possible to recreate Zötl?s rich and many-coloured menagerie. Breton was aided by a young surrealist writer and follower, Vincent Bounoure. Julio Cortázar, a master of fantastical literature, completes this walk amongst the cages. A stunningly beautiful book produced in the exquisite FMR tradition. Still in shrinkwrap in publisher's shipping box. New in new slipcase.