FUTILITA (1954)

Firenze (Florence, Italy), Presso I Tyszkiewicz Stampatori, 1954, IN ITALIAN, (17x13cm), 144 pages. With 20 engravings and 8 copper engravings by Pietro Parigi. Cloth binding decorated with impressions on the covers and spine, colored top edge, silk ribbon, woodcut decorated endpapers. Printed in black and blue in only 49 numbered copies, this is no. 37. With Sinibaldi typeface, on Auvergne laid paper with printer's watermark.

Introduction by Paolo Emilio Poesio, signed by the printer and publisher.

A rare, and interesting piece. 49 numbered copies were released – this one is 37.

One corner is torn off (see the last picture).

cloth binding decorated with impressions on the covers and spine, colored top edge, silk ribbon, woodcut decorated endpapers, cardboard slipcase, pp. [144]. With eight copperplate engravings by Pietro Parigi f.t. Preface by Paolo Emilio Poesio. Printed in black and blue in only 50 numbered copies (no. 24), with Sinibaldi typeface, on Auvergne laid paper with printer's watermark. “The books of Samuel Tyszkiewicz, a printer in Florence and Nice 1928-1954,” Verona Civic Library, 2004, card no. 49. Last book printed by Tyszkiewicz. Extremely rare. Not listed in ICCU. Perfect condition.

Jan Gozdawa, real name Jan Małęczyński – born in Kamieńsk in 1903, died in Paris in 1980.