Author: [Serafini, Luigi].
Title: Codex Seraphinianus. [2nd edition = 1st Dutch edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Meulenhoff / Landshoff, [1983]. [373] pp. Col. ills. Hardcover, d./j. - Dutsjacket with minimal shelfwear.Rare first (and only) Dutch edition [= the original second edition], issued two years after the first two volume edition. Published as a single-volume edition simultaneously with the First American edition (New York: Abbeville Press, 1983) and German edition (München: Prestel, 1983). - - - The Codex Seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. It's written in a cipher alphabet in an imaginary language. The first edition was issued as a set in two volumes by Franco Maria Ricci in Milan in 1981.

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