ARRIGHI, Ludovico degli. The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico degli Arrighi surnamed Vicentino. A complete facsimile and introduction by Stanley Morison, Paris: [officina Bodoni, Montagnola] for Frederic Warde, 1926, 4°, limited to 300 copies, printed for and under the direction of Frederic Warde and with his Arrighi types, original quarter vellum, spine titled in gilt (upper cover slightly sunfaded, spine bumped at head). [Schmoller 15]

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ARRIGHI, Ludovico degli. The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico degli Arrighi surnamed Vicentino. A complete facsimile and introduction by Stanley Morison, Paris: [officina Bodoni, Montagnola] for Frederic Warde, 1926, 4°, limited to 300 copies, printed for and under the direction of Frederic Warde and with his Arrighi types, original quarter vellum, spine titled in gilt (upper cover slightly sunfaded, spine bumped at head). [Schmoller 15]

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"The first printed models of the Chancery cursive were published by a scrivener in the secretariat of papal briefs, Lodovico degli Arrighi in La Operina da imparare di scriuere littera Cancellarescha (1522) ... it is a handsome work entirely devoted to the chancery cursive."

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