Marco Polo Il Milione. Illustrated by Massimo Campigli with 30 lithographs.

Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1942. Folio (In‑2°). Limited edition, copy no. 72 of 150. A distinguished and beautifully edition of Marco Polo's Il Milione, illustrated with thirty original lithographs by Massimo Campigli, sixteen of them full‑page and printed in black, red, and sepia. The sheets are issued loose, as published. The work is preserved in its original folder, decorated with a lithograph, and housed in the original cardboard slipcase, both showing minor corner wear. A paper bookplate appears on the first flyleaf: Ex Libris Lorenzo Spallino.
Printed on handmade Fabriano paper and limited to 150 numbered copies, the edition is signed and dated '42 in pencil on the colophon by Campigli. This publication represents a remarkable collaboration between three major figures of twentieth‑century Italian art and fine printing. The text and in‑text lithographs were printed in Verona at Giovanni Mardersteig's Officina Bodoni, one of the most celebrated private presses of the period. The full‑page and double‑page lithographs were hand‑pulled in Milan by Piero Fornasetti, later renowned for his iconic decorative arts. Campigli's illustrations, with their stylized, archaic figures inspired by Etruscan and Mediterranean art, make this volume one of his most significant achievements in book illustration.