LOTTO 120

• Edition created to commemorate the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, produced in a limited run of one hundred and seventy-five copies numbered in Arabic numerals from 1/175 to 175/175, and twenty-five copies numbered in Roman numerals from I/XXV to XXV/XXV, six of which are not for sale.
• The interior printing is done using stochastic screening on fine Cordenons Natural Evolution White paper weighing 200 grams.
• A quarto-sized facsimile reproduction of Verdi’s autograph sketches from La Traviata is inserted into the volume with tip-ins.
• Within the volume, ten manually applied oversized plates featuring the costumes from Nabucco, signed by Nicola Benois, are included. These plates are created with twelve-color printing on 240-gram pure cotton Aquarelle Rag paper, manufactured in a round mold by the renowned French paper mills Canson – Arches.
• The cover is made of full-grain bovine leather treated with alum, featuring gold hot stamping impressions on the front and spine.
• A screen print on a metal plate, executed on a manual press, of the portrait of Giuseppe Verdi by the painter Giovanni Boldini is placed on the cover.
• The volume is housed in an elegant plexiglass case along with a 78 RPM vinyl record on which two compositions, performed on the occasion of the composer’s centenary death anniversary, are reproduced. The compositions are taken from I Lombardi alla prima Crociata and Rigoletto.