PALATINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Libro . . . Nelqual s'insegna à Scriver ogni sorte lettera, Antica & Moderna. [63] (of [64]) leaves; lacks the final blank. 8vo, 205x135 mm, modern vellum; lower outer corner of title excised and restored, contents otherwise generally clean. (Rome: Valerio Dorico for Giovan della Gatta, 1561)
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 (original edition). Bonacini 1340; Harvard/Becker 16 (this edition).
