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Writing Books from the Collection of Professor Renato Rabaiotti
AMPHIAREO, Vespasiano. Opera di Frate Vespiasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara ... Nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere & massime una lettera bastarda lui novamente con sua industria rotrovata .... Venice: [Giolito?], 1559.
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AMPHIAREO, Vespasiano. Opera di Frate Vespiasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara ... Nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere & massime una lettera bastarda lui novamente con sua industria rotrovata .... Venice: [Giolito?], 1559.
Oblong 4° (146 x 200mm.). 48 leaves signed *4 A-E8 F4, mostly of calligraphic examples printed from woodblocks. (Hole affecting a few letters in text leaf *4, occasional minor staining, F3 torn and restored and lower half in skilful facsimile, marginal tear in last leaf.) Modern crushed brown morocco. Provenance: Domenico Doria, priest of Piacenza (calligraphic inscription dated 1654 and 1658).
Bonacini 53; Marzoli 4 and 5 (listing the 1555 and 1556 editions); J. Tschichold, Vespasiano Amphiareo's Writing Book, (Stuttgart, 1975), 'Vespasiano's only printed book is a milestone in the history of Cancellaresca, the Roman chancery hand which Ludovico degli Arrighi first set down systematically ...'; Baltimore Catalogue 67; Whalley, The Pen's Excellence, (1980), pp.157-158.
Oblong 4° (146 x 200mm.). 48 leaves signed *4 A-E8 F4, mostly of calligraphic examples printed from woodblocks. (Hole affecting a few letters in text leaf *4, occasional minor staining, F3 torn and restored and lower half in skilful facsimile, marginal tear in last leaf.) Modern crushed brown morocco. Provenance: Domenico Doria, priest of Piacenza (calligraphic inscription dated 1654 and 1658).
Bonacini 53; Marzoli 4 and 5 (listing the 1555 and 1556 editions); J. Tschichold, Vespasiano Amphiareo's Writing Book, (Stuttgart, 1975), 'Vespasiano's only printed book is a milestone in the history of Cancellaresca, the Roman chancery hand which Ludovico degli Arrighi first set down systematically ...'; Baltimore Catalogue 67; Whalley, The Pen's Excellence, (1980), pp.157-158.