Editing Codex Seraphinianus (section)

==Editions==
[[File:Codex-seraphinianus-abbeville.jpg|thumb|300px|Cover of Abbeville edition]]
The original edition was issued in two volumes:
* Luigi Serafini, ''Codex Seraphinianus'', Milano: Franco Maria Ricci [I segni dell'uomo, 27–28], 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 United States, in Germany and in the Netherlands:
* 1st American edition, New York: Abbeville Press, 1983, 370 pp., {{ISBN|0-89659-428-9}};
* Munich: [[Prestel]], 1983, 370 pp., {{ISBN|3-7913-0651-0}};
* Amsterdam: Meulenhoff/Landshoff, 1983, {{ISBN|90-290-8402-2}}.

The 1980s editions were out of print for several years before Franco Maria Ricci published an augmented, single-volume edition in 1993:

* French augmented edition, with a preface by [[Italo Calvino]], transl. by Yves Hersant and Geneviève Lambert, Milano: Franco Maria Ricci [Les signes de l'homme, 18], 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 [Los signos del hombre, 15], 1993, 392 pp., {{ISBN|88-216-6027-3}}.

In 2006, Rizzoli published an expanded, but less expensive, edition in Italy. It features additional illustrations and a preface by the author:

* Milano: Rizzoli, 2006, 384 pp., {{ISBN|88-17-01389-7}};
* Milano: Rizzoli, 2008, 384 pp.

In 2013, Rizzoli published a second revised edition, as well as limited, signed, and numbered "deluxe" edition. They printed 300 copies in Italian and 300 in English:

* Milano: Rizzoli, 2013, 396 pp., {{ISBN|0-8478-4213-4}}

In 2016, a 2017 ''Codex Seraphinianus'' wall calendar was published by Universe Publishing.

* Universe Publishing, 2016, 24 pp., {{ISBN|978-0789332158}}

Rizzoli published a 40th anniversary edition of  ''Codex Seraphinianus'' with some additional material in 2021.  
* Milano: Rizzoli, 2021, 416pp., {{ISBN|0-8478-7104-5}}