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TIRANTI, Honorato (1589-after 1657). Breve sommario d'alcune regole d'ortografia della lingua Italiana. Turin: 1657.
Oblong 4° (229 x 295mm). Engraved title and 27 engraved numbered plates of calligraphic samples and alphabets, 13 leaves of large woodcut roman capitals printed on a black ground, the plate containing Q and R with folding flap. (Very light spot in title, occasional light finger-soiling, small marginal wormhole in 5 leaves, margin strengthened or renewed in 3 plates just affecting frame, light marginal spotting in a few leaves.) Early 20th-century vellum, red spine label, by V. Arias. Provenance: Emiglia [--] (inscription in letter Z on final leaf).
RARE, not located by Marzoli in the libraries consulted for her catalogue Calligraphy 1535-1885. 'Tiranti remains first and foremost a master of calligraphy and no mere virtuoso of the pen' (Marzoli). The present copy appears to be unique in having 13 leaves of striking white-on-black woodcut Roman capitals, closely related to those in Antonozzi's De caratteri, 1637. Plate 24 contains a list of Tiranti's writing-manuals. A FINE, LARGE COPY WITH MANY DECKLE EDGES PRESERVED. Becker, Practice of letters 71 (imperfect); not in Bonacini; Marzoli 31.
Oblong 4° (229 x 295mm). Engraved title and 27 engraved numbered plates of calligraphic samples and alphabets, 13 leaves of large woodcut roman capitals printed on a black ground, the plate containing Q and R with folding flap. (Very light spot in title, occasional light finger-soiling, small marginal wormhole in 5 leaves, margin strengthened or renewed in 3 plates just affecting frame, light marginal spotting in a few leaves.) Early 20th-century vellum, red spine label, by V. Arias. Provenance: Emiglia [--] (inscription in letter Z on final leaf).
RARE, not located by Marzoli in the libraries consulted for her catalogue Calligraphy 1535-1885. 'Tiranti remains first and foremost a master of calligraphy and no mere virtuoso of the pen' (Marzoli). The present copy appears to be unique in having 13 leaves of striking white-on-black woodcut Roman capitals, closely related to those in Antonozzi's De caratteri, 1637. Plate 24 contains a list of Tiranti's writing-manuals. A FINE, LARGE COPY WITH MANY DECKLE EDGES PRESERVED. Becker, Practice of letters 71 (imperfect); not in Bonacini; Marzoli 31.