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<dl><dd>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</dd>
<dd>Owner's inscription on ill., p. [54]: Jno. Paynter his Booke. Arithmetic sums on ill. on last p</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 1st ed</dd>
<dd>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]</dd>
<dd>Rectos of 2nd through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner (signatures?)</dd>
<dd>Leaf [22] verso printed upside down</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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