VOLT (COUNT VINCENZO FANI CIOTTI, 1888-1927) ARCHI VOLTAICI / VOLT FUTURISTA. Book with 4 folded typographic plates. 1916.
8 1/2x6 1/2 inches, 21 1/2x16 1/2 cm. Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, Milan.
Condition A-: foxing on cover; time-staining at page edges; minor tears and creases inside; separating from cover along spine. With tissue paper book jacket.
"Futurism's only titled member, Count Vincenzo Fani-Ciotti took the pseudonym Volt both to hide his true identity and to align himself with the 'electricity' of the new movement. Archi voltaici, his first book . . . remains one of the capital works of Futurist book design, with Volt exploiting to the full the rigour of the scientific graph which Marinetti had introduced in Zang Tumb Tumb two years previous" (Ex Libris 14, #131) rare.