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RUINETTI, Tomaso. Idea del buon Scrittore ... à beneficio de' desiderosi d'imitare le vere forme dello scrivere. [Rome]: Intagliata da Christoforo Blanco, 1619.
Oblong 2° (232 x 310mm.). Engraved title and 43 plates, including portrait and dedication, by Blanco and Nicolaus Borbonius. Plate 2 (dedication) and 31 trimmed to platemark and mounted (some inner margins strengthened, waterstain towards upper margin, slightly soiled). Late 19th-century calf.
RARE. Writing of this work Joyce Whalley notes that "Ruinetti was the first of the writing masters to use copper-plate engraving to reproduce not only a variety of scripts (as Hercolani had been first to do in 1574) but also the very elaborate borders showing 'strikings' or 'command of hand'. These calligraphic flourishes already threaten to dominate the page, and later writing masters were to take up this aspect of the copy books with great enthusiasm and virtuosity." (J.I.Whalley, The Art of Calligraphy, p.185). The bibliographies give various collations, but the V. and A. copy and the Wing-Newberry copy (Baltimore Catalogue, no.77) appear to be the most complete and correspond to this copy. Cf.Bonacini 1585 (variant collation); cf.Marzoli 21; cf.Berlin Katalog 5209.
Oblong 2° (232 x 310mm.). Engraved title and 43 plates, including portrait and dedication, by Blanco and Nicolaus Borbonius. Plate 2 (dedication) and 31 trimmed to platemark and mounted (some inner margins strengthened, waterstain towards upper margin, slightly soiled). Late 19th-century calf.
RARE. Writing of this work Joyce Whalley notes that "Ruinetti was the first of the writing masters to use copper-plate engraving to reproduce not only a variety of scripts (as Hercolani had been first to do in 1574) but also the very elaborate borders showing 'strikings' or 'command of hand'. These calligraphic flourishes already threaten to dominate the page, and later writing masters were to take up this aspect of the copy books with great enthusiasm and virtuosity." (J.I.Whalley, The Art of Calligraphy, p.185). The bibliographies give various collations, but the V. and A. copy and the Wing-Newberry copy (Baltimore Catalogue, no.77) appear to be the most complete and correspond to this copy. Cf.Bonacini 1585 (variant collation); cf.Marzoli 21; cf.Berlin Katalog 5209.