Libro di M. Giovanbattista Palatino cittadino romano :
nel qual s'insegna à scriuere ogni sorte lettera, antica, et moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue regole, et misure, et essempi : et con vn breve, et vtil discorso de le cifre.

Description

Main Author

Palatino, Giovanni Battista, active 16th century.

Related Names

Palatino, Giovanni Battista, 16th cent.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Roma in Campo di Fiore : Per Antonio Blado asolano, il mese di luglio, 1548.

Edition

Riueduto nuouamente, & corretto dal proprio autore :

Subjects

Lettering > Lettering / Italy > Lettering / Italy / Early works to 1800.
Alphabets > Alphabets / Early works to 1800.
Penmanship > Penmanship / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Italy > Woodcuts / Italy / 16th century.
Writing books > Writing books / Italy > Writing books / Italy / 16th century.

Note

Signatures: A-H⁸ (H8 blank).
Illustrations: port. of author on t.p.; model scripts and alphabets; "Sonetto figurato" (sonnet in rebus, F6v-F8r); full-page cut of writing implements, G8v; moth/flame device, H7v; historiated initials.
Original ed. published Rome, 1540, under title: Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere. First expanded ed., with title as that of present work, published 1545. See Bonacini.
Imprint from colophon, H7r.

Physical Description

[128] p. : ill., port. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm. (4to)

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