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PALATINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Compendio del Gran Volume dell'Arte del bene, & leggiadramente Scivere Tutte le Sorti di Lettere. 1588
PALATINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Compendio del Gran Volume dell'Arte del bene, & leggiadramente Scivere Tutte le Sorti di Lettere e Caratteri. Full-page woodcut illustrations of writing specimens, decorative and exotic alphabets including Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac, various forms of secret writing, etc. [62] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device. 8vo, later 19th-/early 20th-century paste-paper boards; mostly marginal soiling throughout, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, insignficant worming in blank lower margin of several leaves in middle of volume. Venice: (Gio. Antonio Rampazetto for) Alvise Sessa, 1588
- Notes: Later edition, retitled, of Palatino''s 1540 Libro Nuovo, "the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century . . . In extent, Palatino''s manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi''s or Tagliente''s . . . Palatino''s models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability"---2000 Years of Calligraphy 65 (1540 original edition). Bonacini 1343 (this edition).
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