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PALATINO, Giovanni Battista. Compendio del gran volume dell'arte del bene, & leggiadramente scrivere tutte le sorti di lettere e caratteri. Con le lor regole, misure, & essempi... con un nuovo breve, & util discorso delle cifre. Venice: Giovanni Antonio Rampazetto for Alvise Sessa, 1588.
4° (188 x 150mm.). Woodcut portrait of the author on verso of title, last leaf with woodcut of Palatino's personal device (a moth fluttering in a candle-flame), 83 full-page woodcut specimens of writing and one of writing instruments. (Leaves C7 to the end wormed at lower margin with occasional slight loss to text or illustrations, most holes neatly repaired.) 18th-century German gilt floral paper wrappers manufactured by Georg Christoph of Augsburg (backstrip slightly split).
A reprint of the Rome edition of 1566. The first Venice edition was published by the Heirs of Melchiorrre Sessa in 1578, this is the last 16th-century edition. Bonacini 1343.
4° (188 x 150mm.). Woodcut portrait of the author on verso of title, last leaf with woodcut of Palatino's personal device (a moth fluttering in a candle-flame), 83 full-page woodcut specimens of writing and one of writing instruments. (Leaves C7 to the end wormed at lower margin with occasional slight loss to text or illustrations, most holes neatly repaired.) 18th-century German gilt floral paper wrappers manufactured by Georg Christoph of Augsburg (backstrip slightly split).
A reprint of the Rome edition of 1566. The first Venice edition was published by the Heirs of Melchiorrre Sessa in 1578, this is the last 16th-century edition. Bonacini 1343.