The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Illustrated cloth, gilt lettering, clamshell folder.
pages, colour illustrations, 1 colour print.
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