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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 is limited to 50 copies.
Deluxe Edition (limited to 10 copies): $18.00 + $2 shipping ** SOLD OUT **
Trade Edition (limited to 40 copies): $5.00 + $2 shipping ** SOLD OUT ** (BUT email us if you’re interested: we may consider doing a second edition if enough people want one)
Please send money via PayPal to chance.press.books (at) gmail (dot) com to order a copy.
Edition Details:
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.
Please note: Due to irregularities in the 2-color printing process, the printing on the front cover of the copy you receive may not match the photo. Of the 60 or so covers we printed, we discarded the worst offenders, but there are still some covers in the print run that don’t have 100% color separation between the black and green sections, or others that don’t have 100% ink saturation throughout the entire printed area. This is part of the allure of handmade books, in our opinion – that no two are exactly alike. If we wanted the covers to look absolutely perfect, we would have printed them on a color laser printer; instead we chose a process (Gocco) that lets the reader enjoy the tactile quality of the ink printed on the page. Still, the perfectionists in us are not totally satisfied with the result, which is why the price of both editions is significantly lower than what we would normally charge for a book like this. Please be advised of the above before ordering. -Jordan & Justine
