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<dl><dd>Binding: modern decorated paper, quarter maroon calfskin. Spine tooled in gilt with author and the dates 1529, 1544. First 2 and last 2 leaves remargined, 3rd leaf extended, various old repairs</dd>
<dd>Property stamp in blue ink on verso of last leaf: Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti Flor. (Gustavo Camillo Galletti, 1805-1868)</dd>
<dd>First published 1524 with blocks cut by Eustachio Celebrino. Expanded eds. in 1525. See A.S. Osley, Luminario, p. 18, 24</dd>
<dd>Imprint from colophon</dd>
<dd>"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 the 1st ed. of 1524</dd>
<dd>Except for letterpress dedication on verso of 1st leaf, printed from woodcut blocks through leaf [25], and from there on largely in italic letterpress. Four full-page illustrations, the first two of which did not appear in Giovanniantonio's ed. of 1539: leaf [21]v, four panels with depictions of a ship, swine, fruit, fowl; [25]v, an allegory with 3 hearts; [26]v, writing paraphernalia; [32]v, an astronomer observing the heavens. Decorated and historiated initials in letterpress section</dd>
<dd>Second through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner of rectos (signatures?)</dd>
<dd>Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Penmanship; Alphabets</div>
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<dl><dd>Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio</dd>
<dd>Celebrino, Eustachio, approximately 1480-approximately 1555</dd></dl></div>
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