Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso

€2,500.00

It includes an original watercolor painted by the author.
Italian edition.

Fictional novel.

Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language. 

This edition is limited to 33 copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.



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Italian edition. Only copy printed letterpress on J. F. Head pure-cotton paper handmade in England in 1948. It includes an original watercolour painted by the author, intitled “ I bagni di Goggiam”.

This edition is limited to 33 copies printed on 33 different, top-quality papers made in China, Japan, England, Germany, France, and Italy. Most of them are ancient and extremely rare papers.

A first edition, “Voyage to Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into an exotic and legendary realm, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language.

It is a volume in the album format (cm19x15), of 60 pages typeset by hand in 16-point Caslon type. This type was cast in the original 18th-century matrices. This novel was printed on the 1905 Phoenix V platen press which Maurice Darantiere used for the printing of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The volume is housed in a slipcase and a box, custom hand-made to an exact size, whose exteriors are covered with Ingres paper. The book title is letterpress-printed on the slipcase’s spine.



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19x15