EARLY ITALIAN WRITING-BOOKS, RENAISSANCE TO BAROQUE EDITED BY NICOLAS BARKER.
- Verona and London: Edizioni Valdonega and The British Library, 1990.
- small 8vo.
- cloth, dust jacket.
- 5-218, (4) pages, with 24 additional pages of plates.
Price: $35.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 142243
First edition. Fine in fine jacket.
The English typographer, Stanley Morison (1889-1967), the English typographer, had completed a manuscript of this book at the time of his death. Nicolas Barker assumed the task of editing, and it was published in Europe by Edizioni Valdonega (printed by the Stamperia V.), and distributed or"published" in the US exclusively for the members of "HOC VOLO." Morison discusses the history of writing and Italian writing before 1500, major Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance, early Baroque Italian calligraphy and the decline of calligraphy, With 21 photographic reproductions of title pages, illustrations, etc, from the writing-books. With a fold-out table listing specific features as they appear in 15 writing-books, a brief biography of Morison, and index.