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(BOOK ARTS.) Ratta, Cesare. L'arte del Libro e della Rivista nei Paesi d'Europe e d'America. 2 volumes. Italian text but additional title-page in English. Over 1000 illustrations, including color and tipped-in plates, plus index in Vol. 2. Thick small folios, publisher's cream boards pictorially illustrated in gold and colors, spine ends, joints, and tips a bit worn with mild dampstaining and splitting, and surface loss; hinges cracked or starting. Bologna: Ratta, 1927
number 662 of 750 sets printed by ratta and one of the most extensive surveys of book design and illustration in its scope and number of diverse examples, concentrating on the fertile period of 1890-1925. Ratta was head of the School of Typographic Art in Bologna.
