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Valenti Angelo: Author...1970, 1 of 50 copies Sgd

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Title: Valenti Angelo: Author + Illustrator + Printer. A Checklist of His Work from 1926 to 1970
Author: **
Description: Foreword by Robert Grabhorn. Illustrated with examples of Angelo's work, some hand-illuminated in gilt and colors. 9¾x6¾, quarter vellum & boards, spine lettered in gilt, wax-paper cover, original slipcase. No. 35 of 55 copies, hand-set, hand-printed, decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo.Signed by Angelo in the colophon. More than simply a checklist of the illustrator's work, this finely printed volume offers many examples of his creations, as well as an autobiographical sketch by the artist and sample pages from his publications. Prospectus and a printed folding card with hand-illuminated illustration of St. Francis by Angelo, signed, issued for Special Collections Dept., San Francisco Public Library, 1975, with envelope, all laid in. Daniel Volkmann's gilt-lettered bookplate on rear pastedown.
Heading: (Angelo, Valenti)Place Published: Bronxville, NY
Publisher: [Privately printed by Angelo]
Date Published: 1970