Codex Seraphinianus

New York: Rizzoli, 2014. Fifth Printing of the Rizzoli trade edition (first published in Italy, 1981), with supplemental pamphlet in rear pocket as issued. Folio (35cm); pictorial cloth hardcover; unpaginated; illus. Light shelf-wear, with trace shelf-soil to rear cover; Very Good+.

Reprint of Serafini's landmark artist's book, an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things, written in an invented language (or, rather, script) which Serafini himself has stated possesses no lexicographical or syntactical meaning. This edition includes a new Preface by Serafini, contained in a multi-lingual pamphlet laid-in to a pocket inside the rear cover. [88567].