For Sale Ferrari 250 GT/E Manuale Ristampare. Full Color, GTE/Lusso/SWB Correct.

For sale $330 plus shipping.

The story of this book is as follows:

Generally, the quality of the re-printed GTE manuals in circulation is very poor. Prices of originals have reached stratospheric levels even for very poor condition examples. The creator of this manual used an excellent original Italian language version to create a "superior re-print" in a limited numbered edition.
Many buyers have delicate but valuable originals themselves, they can now be at home with one of these kept in the car.

This manual is limited to 100 editions and numbered on the inside the rear cover.

His goals were as follows:

To replicate the colours used to define the chapters in the illustrations.
To use the same grade of paper as the original in terms of shine and of weight.
To ensure that text is clear and correct.
To use a cotton binding technique as per original.
To reproduce the 'fold out' format of the wiring diagram.
To have the books printed in the UK by a proper book printer.

He describes process as quite complex. Digital techniques were used to remove hand written annotations, creases and oily finger prints. The original font was matched and used to re-insert the chapter headings in full colour bars on the page tops. The colours could not be replicated using digital printing so 'old school' lithographic techniques were used with Pantone standard colours. To do this it was necessary to 'deconstruct' the valuable original

The idea was not to produce forgeries, but a 100 % "concours correct" book, so the copies are printed on white paper (as opposed to vintage looking sepia tones) and are discreetly but clearly marked as 'Facsimile" on the outer rear cover.

High quality replica pig skin pouches are also available.

Any questions ? please PM me/ start a conversation with me.

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