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PALATINO, Giovanni Battista. Compendio del gran volume de l'arte del bene et leggiadramente scrivere tutte le sorti di lettere e caratteri. Con le lor Regole, misure, & Essempi... con un nuovo breve, & util discorso delle Cifre. Venice: Heirs of Melchiorre Sessa in 1578.
4o (192 x 150 mm). Woodcut portrait on verso of title, woodcut device at end, woodcut calligraphy and alphabets. (Light browning and spotting, marginal whole in B.) Contemporary Venetian purple limp vellum. Provenance: acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1997.
FIRST VENETIAN EDITION, a reissue of the 1566 edition. It includes alphabets in exotic scripts like Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldean. Palatino was one of the great renaissance writing masters, combining calligraphic skill with philosophical-literary pretensions. See Bonacini 1342 (1588 edition); Brunet IV:314; Johnson (1920) 28.
4o (192 x 150 mm). Woodcut portrait on verso of title, woodcut device at end, woodcut calligraphy and alphabets. (Light browning and spotting, marginal whole in B.) Contemporary Venetian purple limp vellum. Provenance: acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1997.
FIRST VENETIAN EDITION, a reissue of the 1566 edition. It includes alphabets in exotic scripts like Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldean. Palatino was one of the great renaissance writing masters, combining calligraphic skill with philosophical-literary pretensions. See Bonacini 1342 (1588 edition); Brunet IV:314; Johnson (1920) 28.