Luigi Serafini - Codex Seraphinianus - 2013

Codex Seraphinianus
by Luigi Serafini
2013, 3rd print
Editorial paperback with rigid plates, spine title
attached to the volume and small text end Decodex in multilingual:
Italian-English-French-German-Spanish-Portuguese and Russian
Reprint on the first edition of 1981
dimensions in cm 34.5 x 23.5
Rizzoli

N.B. Surreal machines, animal and vegetable metamorphoses, a sequence of colored inventions commented by an imaginary writing, the "Codex Seraphinianu" s is a cult book, a visionary and mysterious illuminated code originally published in 1981 by Franco Maria Ricci, which has continued for years to fascinate us for its revelation ability. The "Codex" traces in utopian and fantastic key all the fields of knowledge, from zoology to botany, from mineralogy to ethnography, from physics to technology: pincer men, crocodile lovers, flying eggs, upside down trees.
This volume is considered by critics to be a work of art.

Condition: see all photographs as part of the condition. Small stain to the back of cover as showed in the photographs but overall, an excellent copy.