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Alphabets, Early works to 1800, PenmanshipShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excelle[n]te scriuere de diuerse varie sorti de litere: lequali se fano p[e]r geometrica ragione & con la presente opera ognuno le potra imparare impochi giorni p[er] lo amaistramento, ragione, & essempli, come qui seguente vederai
1539, Per Giouanniantonio de Nicolini da Sabio
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First published 1524 with blocks cut by Eustachio Celebrino. Expanded eds. in 1525. See A.S. Osley, Luminario, p. 18, 24.
Imprint from colophon.
"Il libro contiene dei modelli di Lettera cancellaresca, mercantesca, francesca, antiqua tonda, fiorentina, bollatica, imperiale, et gli alfabeti ebraico, persiano, e caldeo"--Bonacini 1807, describing 1st ed.
Except for letterpress dedication on verso of 1st leaf, printed from woodcut blocks through p. [48], from there on largely in italic letterpress. Two full-page ill. depicting writing paraphernalia, p. [54], and an astronomer observing the heavens, p. [64].
Rectos of 2nd through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner (signatures?).
Leaf [22] verso printed upside down.
Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie, 1826
Binding: later vellum (19th cent.?). Two spine labels with author and with place and date in gilt. Closely trimmed at top and in places at foredge, with minor losses.
Owner's inscription on ill., p. [54]: Jno. Paynter his Booke. Arithmetic sums on ill. on last p.
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