Codex Seraphinianus - Editions

Editions

A rare and expensive work, the original edition was issued in two volumes:

  • Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus, Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981, 127+127 pp., 108+128 plates, ISBN 88-216-0026-2 + ISBN 88-216-0027-0.

Two years later, a single-volume edition was issued in the U.S., in Germany and in the Netherlands:

  • 1st American edition, New York: Abbeville Press, 1983, 370 pp., ISBN 0-89659-428-9;
  • München: Prestel, 1983, 370 pp., ISBN 3-7913-0651-0;
  • Amsterdam: Meulenhoff/Landshoff, 1983, ISBN 90-290-8402-2.

These editions were out of print for many years, but as of 1993 a new, augmented, single-volume edition of the book was being sold in Europe:

  • French augmented edition, with a preface by Italo Calvino, transl. by Yves Hersant and Geneviève Lambert, Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1993, 392 pp., ISBN 88-216-2027-1;
  • Spanish augmented edition, with a preface by Italo Calvino, transl. by C. Alonso, Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1993, 392 pp., ISBN 88-216-6027-3.

In 2006, a revised, relatively inexpensive (89 Euros/120USD) edition, with new illustrations and a "preface" by the author, was released in Italy:

  • Milano: Rizzoli, 2006, 384 pp., ISBN 88-17-01389-7;
  • Milano: Rizzoli, 2008, 384 pp.

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