This catalogue collects the book editions and editions of art prints made for MAVIDA (1989-2017), which brought together various activities related to the book, the original printing, the restoration of paper and the sale of modern original prints and books illustrated with original works, and those subsequently published with the brand of the Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi, that goes on the editorial work.
The Laboratorio also always has printed and still prints engravings, folders and books on behalf of other clients or publishers, all works collected here; in particular, for the editions of the Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, the etchings by Renato Guttuso for The years of lost images by Valerio Zurlini and the burin Greeting card for 1923 by Gino Severini for the catalog of the complete graphic work edited by Francesco Meloni; for the All'Insegna del Lanzello editions, the etchings by Alberto Manfredi for Lo zoppino; among the most important works, he has entirely created the edition edited by the Hundred Friends of the Book of the Song of Songs, illustrated with lithographs by Aldo Salvadori and the series of the Almanacco di Italia Nostra from 1989 to 2015; won the Gianfranco Fedrigoni National Prize for Pregio Publishing 2004 with the Le Stories Series and the 2015 LiberBook Prize with Lazzaro Spallanzani, Tra Scilla e Cariddi, engravings by Vincenzo Piazza.
Numerous are the artists with whom the Laboratorio has edited several editions of engravings; in addition to the already mentioned, we also remember Sigfrido Bartolini, Renzo Biasion, Gianni Cacciarini, Giancarlo Cazzaniga, Rodolfo Ceccotti, Arnoldo Ciarrocchi, Mario Calandri, Italo Cremona, Fiorella Diamantini, Gino Forti, Stefano Grasselli, Mino Maccari, Paolo Manaresi, Pompilio Mandelli, Vairo Mongatti, Franco Rognoni, Duilio Rossoni, Aligi Sassu, Alfredo Sosabravo; to these must be added the editions of biffate plates by Luigi Bartolini and Antonio Ligabue made by the owners for documentation. Many others are also the artists who have collaborated and still collaborate with the Laboratorio for book and prints editions, including many young artists, as can be seen in the following catalogue.