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VICENTINO, LUDOVICO DEGLI ARRIGHI. Regola da imparare di scrivere Varii caratteri de littere . . . et il modo de temperare le penne. [29] (of [30]) leaves; lacks colophon leaf at end. printed entirely from woodblocks. Small 4to, 200x138 mm, modern citron morocco; contents unobtrusively washed with occasional light residual soiling and early owner's pen trials in lower margin of leaves 6v-A7r, faint impression of the woodblock on 29v; 1/4 oasis folding case. Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. (Venice: Nicolo d'Aristotile), 1533
Combined edition, first published the preceding year, of both parts of Arrighi's writing manual, which had originally appeared separately as La Operina, dated 1522, and Il Modo di temperare le penne, dated 1523. "Considered by many to be the finest of all copy books" (Whalley), Arrighi's work was the first printed book of its kind. Bonacini 1968; Harvard/Becker 6; The Universal Penman 66; Whalley, The Art of Calligraphy, pages 147-50.
