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ROMANO, Giacomo. Il primo Libro de Scrivere dove s'insegna la vera maniera delle cancellaresche corsive, e di tutti quelle sorti di lettere. Rome: Pietro Spada for the Author, 1589.
Oblong 4° (170 x 235mm.). 92 leaves. (π4, ++4, A-X4, Y2): title (verso blank), 2pp. dedication to Guiliano Cesarini, 2pp. 'Alli Lettori', woodcut portrait of Romano (verso blank), 8pp. text, 84 leaves with examples of hands, alphabets and letterforms, each within a decorative border (printed recto only). (Lacking at least 2 leaves, browned, neat repairs to outer margin of title and a few other leaves, final leaf torn with loss, portrait leaf, A4 and I1 holed, tear in decorative margin of K1.) Modern roan.
RARE. Romano was a pupil of Cresci, but his models were closer to those of Cresci's arch-rival Scalzini. Bonacini 1557.
Oblong 4° (170 x 235mm.). 92 leaves. (π4, ++4, A-X4, Y2): title (verso blank), 2pp. dedication to Guiliano Cesarini, 2pp. 'Alli Lettori', woodcut portrait of Romano (verso blank), 8pp. text, 84 leaves with examples of hands, alphabets and letterforms, each within a decorative border (printed recto only). (Lacking at least 2 leaves, browned, neat repairs to outer margin of title and a few other leaves, final leaf torn with loss, portrait leaf, A4 and I1 holed, tear in decorative margin of K1.) Modern roan.
RARE. Romano was a pupil of Cresci, but his models were closer to those of Cresci's arch-rival Scalzini. Bonacini 1557.