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Confronting and Collecting the Works of Luigi Serafini is an essay on the artwork of Luigi Serafini, author of the Codex Seraphinianus. The essay touches on all of Serafini’s major book works, including the publishing history of the Codex, although at it’s base, it is about how a chance encounter with a rare book can snowball into a veritable obsession with the gifted mind of an author or artist. This book will interest anyone familiar with Serafini and his work, as well as those who appreciate the hobby of book collecting in general.
Ordering:
The first edition (40 trade copies/10 deluxe copies) is SOLD OUT.
To order the second edition, head over to our ordering page.
Edition Details:
Second Edition:
The second edition of this book is the first release in the Chance Press RESEARCH series of books examining underappreciated or forgotten art and literature. The trade edition is hand sewn into Gocco-printed linen cardstock wrappers. The signed trade edition is the same, with the addition of a sewn-on tissue dustjacket.
The deluxe edition is hand-bound in boards covered in Italian Canapetta bookcloth, with a Canson Montval Gocco-printed cover pastedown. Interior pastedowns are on Fabriano Murillo, and binding is sewn with black Irish linen thread.
First Edition:
Confronting and Collecting the Works of Luigi Serafini is a single-signature hand-sewn chapbook with vellum endpapers. The covers of the trade edition are Gocco-printed in two colors.
The deluxe edition features textured wrappers with a Gocco-printed pastedown (printed on Rives BFK), rounded corners, and each copy contains a hand-sewn mini chapbook with additional material attached inside the rear cover with a ribbon. (Each mini chapbook is unique, with a different type of fancy paper cover and a some snappy sewing by Justine.) Deluxe copies also have a color photograph of the Codex Seraphinianus tipped inside the front cover, and each copy is signed by the author.