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ARTE NUEVA DE ESCRIBIR
Palomares, Francisco Xavier de Santiago
Inventada por el Insigne Maestro Pedro Diaz Morante, e Ilustrada con Muestras nuevas, y various discursos conducentes al verdadero Magisterio de Primeras Letras
First edition. Forty engraved plates of calligraphic specimens. "Influential text, the result of a commission to design a more efficient national script." (Harvard/Becker 141. Bonacini 1353; Berlin 5248; Cotarelo y Mori II, 145; Palau 210612,299945). Includes engraved additional title, lacking errata leaf. Spine cracked; blank lower outer corner of letterpress title restored. With fore edge trimmed, minor soiling on some plates and plate 33 wormed and probably supplied from another copy.
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CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL: NEW SERIES.
by Chambers, William and Robert (editors)
(Union List of Serials 2, 975; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 3, 1813). New Series began publication in 1844. Topics included essays, poetry, tales, biographical sketches, "instruction and entertainment" and anecdotes. A weekly 16 page magazine, first series commenced publication in 1832. Jointly edited by brothers William and Robert Chambers. Biographies of the Chambers brothers in DNB, IV, 23 and 27. Continued as Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts in 1854. Each volume includes index of articles, arranged alphabetically by subject. Previous owner's name, H. N. Johnson, inscirbed on front free endpaper in each volume. Water damage to edges, back free endpapers, and board of Volume I only.
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