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See More... Brøndum-Nielsen, Johs. (editor) PALAEOGRAFI A DANMARK OG SVERIGE.
Nordisk Kultur XXVIII. Stockholm, Oslo, and København Albert Bonniers, H. Aschehoug & Co.s, and J. H. Schultz n.d. (1943) large 8vo. cloth, spine lettering in gold. (viii), 147 pages.
A history of paleography in Denmark and Sweden, using manuscripts mainly from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries. Articles by E. Kroman and Sam Jansson. Black and white plates. Index.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 74058

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See More... (Calligraphy) Becker, David P. THE PRACTICE OF LETTERS.
Cambridge The Harvard College Library 1997 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxiii, (i), 127+(1) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 2500 copies at The Stinehour Press. This catalogue describes the collection of printed manuals for the teaching of lettering and handwriting acquired by Philip Hofer for the Harvard College Library. Included are all of the pre-1800 printed writing manuals given or bequeathed by Hofer to the Department and all of those purchased by him as curator from 1938 to 1968. Illustrated and indexed.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 58283

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See More... (Calligraphy) Cresci, Giovan Francesco A RENAISSANCE ALPHABET IL PERFETTO SCITTORE, PARTE SECONDA.
With an Introduction by Donald M. Anderson. Madison Univ. of Wisconsin Press (1971) oblong 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, (6) pages followed by 26 plates.
First edition thus. A fine facsimile of a 16th century writing book.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 1114

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See More... (Calligraphy) Cresci, Giovan Francesco RENAISSANCE ALPHABET IL PERFETTO SCITTORE, PARTE SECONDA. With an Introduction by Donald M. Anderson.
Madison Univ. of Wisconsin Press (1971) oblong 8vo. cloth. xxii, (6) pages followed by 26 plates.
First edition thus. A fine facsimile of a 16th century writing book. Lacks jacket. Covers faded. Pages wavy.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 21979

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See More... (Calligraphy) Degering, Hermann LETTERING, MODES OF WRITING IN WESTERN EUROPE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 18TH CENTURY.
With a Preface by Alfred Fairbank. New York Universe Books, Inc (1965) 4to. cloth 38 pages of description followed by 240 full page plates.
Reprint of the second edition. Minor chipping along jacket edges.
Price: $ 32.50 other currencies Order nr. 76753

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  (Calligraphy) Degering, Hermann LETTERING, MODES OF WRITING IN WESTERN EUROPE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EI GHTEENTH CENTURY. With a Preface by Alfred Fairbank.
London Ernest Benn Limited (1965) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 38 pages of description followed by 240 full page plates.
Second edition, revised. Jacket has some rubbing.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 21865

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See More... (Calligraphy) Pierce, Henry K. THE INSTRUMENTS OF WRITING TRANSLATED FROM THE WRITING BOOK OF GIOVANBATTISTA PALATINO, ROME, 1540.
To Which is Added a Partial Translation of ... Arrighi's "The Method of Cutting a Pen'', Rome, 1523, By Erich A. O'D Taylor and Technical Notes by John Howard Benson. Newport Berry Hill Press (1953) tall 8vo. paper wrappers, cord-tied. (24) pages.
Printed for the Chiswick Book Shop. Illustrated. Reprint of the very scarce 1948 edition which was limited to only 100 copies.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 1100

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See More... (Calligraphy) SOME FACSIMILES WRITTEN BY FAMOUS CALLIGRAPHERS
Tehran Book Friends Society (1964) 4to. stiff paper folded envelope with sheets loosely inserted. unpaginated
Second edition. Text in English and Arabic. Ten examples of calligraphy in Arabic on loose fold out sheets. Envelope rubbed.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 105289

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See More... (Calligraphy) Wolpe, Berthold (editior) A NEWE BOOKE OF COPIES 1574, A FACSIMILE OF A UNIQUE ELIZABETHAN WRITING.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Berthold Wolpe. London Lion and Unicorn Press 1959 small 4to. cloth. 100 pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies printed and bound at this press. Facsimile reprint of a book of much interest to anyone concerned with the alphabet and the deciphering of old documents.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 31850

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See More... Cresci, Giovanni Francesco IL PERFETTO SCRITTORE.
2 parts in 1 volume Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 oblong 4to. decorative stiff paper wrappers (iii, 51, 40, 1) unnumbered leaves. li pages. 64 pages
Facsimile of the 1570 edition published in Rome. Edition limited to 300 handnumbered copies. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. With numerous calligraphic specimens.

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103725

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See More... Degering, Hermann LETTERING, MODES OF WRITING IN WESTERN EUROPE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
With a Preface by Alfred Fairbank. New York Pentalic Corporation (1965) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 38 pages of description followed by 240 full page plates.
Reprint of the second edition. Covers soiled and partially detached from book block.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 22599

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See More... Judge, Cyril Barhurst SPECIMENS OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HANDWRITING TAKEN FROM CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RECORDS.
Cambridge Harvard University Press 1935 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (18) pages followed by 24 plates, some foldout.
First edition. Jacket slightly chipped around edges with some toning. Ink ownership inscription on front pastedown.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 33496

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See More... Mercator, Gerardus LITERARUM LATINARUM, QUAS ITALICAS, CURSORIASQUE VOCANT SCRIBENDARUM RATIO.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1970 4to stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages.
Facsimile of the 1540 edition, limited to 300 hand-numbered copies. With 54 woodcuts.

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Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 103727

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See More... Moore, Margaret F. TWO SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MEDIAEVAL HISTORICAL STUDY.
London Constable & Co. 1912 8vo. cloth. 185, (5) pages.
First edition. Contains "I. A classified list of works relating to the study of English paleography and Diplomatic. II. A classified list of works relating to English manorial and agrarian history from the earliest times to the year 1660. With a preface by Hubert Hall. Boards and spine heavily soiled.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 42306

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See More... Morison, Stanley SPLENDOUR OF ORNAMENT, SPECIMENS SELECTED FROM THE ESSEMPIO DI RECAMMI, THE FIRST ITALIAN MANUAL OF DECORATION, VENICE 1524 BY GIOVANNI ANTONIO TAGLIENTE. HIS LIFE AND LITERARY REMAINS, THE ESSEMPIO DI RECAMMI AND HIS TYPOGRAPHICAL STYLE BY ESTHER POTTER. Preface by Berthold Wolpe.
London Lion and Unicorn Press 1968 small 4to. specially woven cloth-covered boards. 72 pages.
First edition, limited to 400 copies. (Appleton no.231). The ornaments are reproduced in many colors which greatly enhance the text. Morison died shortly before this book was published.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 15729

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See More... Osley, Arthur S. LUMINARIO. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ITALIAN WRITING-BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 small folio cloth xiii, 173 pages,
The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books. With 116 full-size facsimiles, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs.

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Price: $ 230.00 other currencies Order nr. 103728

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See More... Osley, A.S. MERCATOR, A MONOGRAPH ON THE LETTERING OF MAPS, ETC. IN THE 16TH CENTURY NETHERLANDS WITH A FACSIMILE AND TRANSLATION OF HIS TREATISE ON THE ITALIC HAND AND A TRANSLATION OF GHIM'S VIA MERCATORIS.
New York Watson-Guptill Publications (1969) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 209 pages.
First U.S. edition. With 103 halftones and 20 line illustrations. A discussion of the "revolutionary influence which Mercator's example exercised in the Low Countries not only on the lettering of maps and globes, but also on book production..." Minor jacket wear at head of spine.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 31060

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See More... Plantin, Christopher CALLIGRAPHY & PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, DIALOGUE ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN, IN FRENCH AND FLEMISH FACSIMILE. Edited, with English translation and notes by Ray Nash. Foreword by Stanley Morison.
Antwerp Plantin-Moretus Museum 1964 small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 77 pages followed by the facsimile.
Limited to 500 copies. A new edition taken from the 1940 printing and containing a revised foreword by Stanley Morison. Damage at head of spine.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 22665

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See More... Ruano, Ferdinando SETTE ALPHABETI DI VARIE LETTERE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1971 Small folio decorative stiff paper wrappers (iii, 45, i) unnumbered leaves
Facsimile of the 1554 edition printed in Rome. Edition limited to 300 handnumbered copies. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. With numerous calligraphic specimens.

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103731

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See More... Ryder, John LINES OF THE ALPHABET IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
London The Stellar Press & The Bodley Head 1965 tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 79+(1) pages.
First edition, limited to 600 copies. Bibliographical notes on 30 writing masters of the 16th century including Arrighi, Cresci, Fugger, Palatino, Verini and others. Each description of a book is accompanied by an illustration, often in color, of part of that book. Included is a checklist of facsimiles of original editions of writing manuals. Wear to dust jacket at head of spine.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 110259

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See More... (Sanvito, Bartolomeo) Mare, A.C. de la and Laura Nuvoloni BARTOLOMEO SANVITO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF A RENAISSANCE SCRIBE.
London, England Association Internationale de Bibliophilie 2009 large 4to cloth, dust jacket 463 pages with 196 images
Bartolomeo Sanvito was one of the most active and famous scribes of fifteenth century Italy, and the supreme exponent of the italic script. He was born in Padua in 1435 into a family reduced to near-hardship by the deaths of his uncle and father. He worked first for a notary, but was soon employed to copy manuscripts by the young Bernardo Bembo, who remained a lifelong friend, the scholarly Francesco Buzzacarini, Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan, patriarch of Aquileia, and the Venetian patrician Marcanonio Morosini. When the Venetian Pietro Barbo was elected Pope as Paul II Sanvito made a first exploratory visit to Rome and moved there permanently (though with frequent visits to Padua) in 1466. He was appointed a member of Cardinal Frencesco Gonzaga's household, possibly as the result of a recommendation by Mantegna, and after the cardinal's death to that of the Pope's nephew Cardinal Raffaelle Riario. Pope Sixtus IV was one of his principal clients. He was also an illuminator, and on occasion collaborated with famous artists -- Franco de' Russi and Marco Zoppo in the north, Gaspare da Padova in Rome. Towards the end of the century he moved back to Padua, to become a canon of the Collegiate Church of Sta Giustina at Monselice and to collaborate with Fra Giovanni Giocondo on collecting examples for his Sylloge of ancient inscriptions. His last great enterprise was to copy and illustrate two large service-books as gifts to the Church of Sta Giustina. He died in 1511.

Published by the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie & The Handwriting of Italian Humanists, this book is a biography of one of the legends in the history of calligraphy. Detailing everything from illumination, bindings and his experimentations in book design, Laura Nuvoloni put together a beautiful book based on the notes of the late A. C. de la Mare. Includes contributions by Scott Dickerson, Ellen Cooper Erdreich and Anthony Hobson, as well as an annotated catalogue of Santivo's manuscripts by Nuvoloni.

Albinia ('Tilly') de la Mare (1932-2001) was one of the outstanding paleographers of the twentieth century. Her achievement was in tracing the careers of the hundreds of scribes writing the newly introduced humanist script in Italy in the fifteenth century. After completing her thesis on Vespasiano da Bisticci. the Florentine bookseller and historian, she was an Assistant to the Bodleian Library until her appointment as Professor of Paleography at King's College, London. She held the chair from 1989 until retirement in 1997. Besides volume I of The Handwriting of Italian Humanists, which discussed eight scholars of the Quattrocento, she published the catalogue of the Lyell manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (with J. J. G. Alexander), the section on 'Clients and Scribes' in Miniatura Fiorentian del Rinascimento by Annarosa Garzelli, and numerous articles in specialised periodicals. She had been collecting material on Bartolomeo Sanvito for many years and had visited several countries to see his manuscripts.

Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 115992

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See More... Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio LA VERA ARTE DELO EXCELLENTE SCRIVERE DE DIVERSE VARIE SORTI DE LITERE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1971 4to decorative stiff paper wrappers. (iii, 24) 53 pages
Facsimile of the 1524 edition published in Venice. Edition limited to 300 handnumbered copies. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. With numerous calligraphic specimens.

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Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103733

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See More... Tannenbaum, Samuel A. THE HANDWRITING OF THE RENAISSANCE BEING THE DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SCRIPT OF SHAKESPEARE'S TIME.
New York Columbia University Press 1930 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 210 pages.
First edition. Contains a bibliography of the subject and numerous illustrations. Jacket has piece missing at top of spine; price clipped.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3032

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See More... Tannenbaum, Samuel A. THE HANDWRITING OF THE RENAISSANCE BEING THE DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SCRIPT OF SHAKESPEARE'S TIME.
New York Columbia University Press 1930 8vo. cloth. xii, 210 pages.
First edition. Contains a bibliography of the subject and numerous illustrations. Lettering on spine rubbed off.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 40046

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See More... Tory, Geofroy CHAMP FLEURY OU L'ART ET SCIENCE DE LA PROPORTION DES LETTRES, Reproduction Phototypique de L'Edition Princeps de Paris 1529. Precedee d'un Avant-propos et suivie de Notes, Index et Glossaire par Gustave Cohen.
Paris Charles Bosse 1931 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), xx, facsimile, (2), 62, (6) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Facsimile reprint of the 1529 edition of this famous lettering book accompanied by introduction, notes, glossary and index. Some wear at spine ends. A few light spots along hinge. Bookplate.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 46912

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