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BODONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Manuale Tipografico. Frontispiece portrait of Bodoni; 539 specimens of Roman, Greek, and exotic types, type ornaments and borders, technical symbols, numerals, and music notation. 2 volumes. 4to, 310x210 mm, original patterned boards, spines faintly darkened; contents clean; publisher's matching board slipcase. London: Holland Press, 1960
Complete facsimile of the posthumous 1816 second edition of Bodoni's type specimen book, "probably the most elaborate . . . the world has ever seen" (Updike). Brooks 1216; Updike II, 171 (both describing the original edition).
