Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PALATINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Compendio del Gran Volume dell'Arte del bene, & leggiadramente Scivere Tutte le Sorti di Lettere e Caratteri. Full-page woodcut illustrations of writing specimens, decorative and exotic alphabets including Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac, various forms of secret writing, etc. [62] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device. 8vo, later 19th-/early 20th-century paste-paper boards; mostly marginal soiling throughout, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, insignficant worming in blank lower margin of several leaves in middle of volume. Venice: (Gio. Antonio Rampazetto for) Alvise Sessa, 1588
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Later edition, retitled, of Palatino's 1540 Libro Nuovo, "the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century . . . In extent, Palatino's manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi's or Tagliente's . . . Palatino's models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability"---2000 Years of Calligraphy 65 (1540 original edition). Bonacini 1343 (this edition).