ARRIGHI, Ludovico degli (called Vicentino). La Operina da imparare di scrivere littera Cancellarescha . Rome: 1522. 4° (215 x 134mm.). 15 (of 16) leaves; printed from woodblocks throughout (lacking the final leaf, some soiling, ? ownership stamp removed from title, the resultant hole neatly repaired). Modern vellum, early fly-leaf bound in. Provenance : Evangelista Pucciarini (16th-century inscriptions). EXTREMELY RARE. FIRST EDITION. 'This fine book is important not only as opus princeps of its calligraphic kind but as a landmark in the history of education' (Berthold Wolpe Renaissance Handwriting , 1960, p.83). Bonacini 1960; Berlin Katalog 5173; Sander 7577; Riccardi II.598.
ARRIGHI, Ludovico degli (called Vicentino). La Operina da imparare di scrivere littera Cancellarescha . Rome: 1522. 4° (215 x 134mm.). 15 (of 16) leaves; printed from woodblocks throughout (lacking the final leaf, some soiling, ? ownership stamp removed from title, the resultant hole neatly repaired). Modern vellum, early fly-leaf bound in. Provenance : Evangelista Pucciarini (16th-century inscriptions). EXTREMELY RARE. FIRST EDITION. 'This fine book is important not only as opus princeps of its calligraphic kind but as a landmark in the history of education' (Berthold Wolpe Renaissance Handwriting , 1960, p.83). Bonacini 1960; Berlin Katalog 5173; Sander 7577; Riccardi II.598.
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