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Additional authors

1. John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Description

1. 23(1) p., 2 l. facsims., illus.; 4to.

Subject

1. Celebrino, Eustachio, approximately 1480-
2. Handwriting, Italian, > 16th cent
3. Calligraphers
4. Paleography > Specimens
5. Penmanship > Specimens
6. Autographs > Specimens
7. Engravers, Italian
8. Writing > Specimens

Call number

1. *KP (Officina Bodoni, Verona) (Morison, S. Evstachio Celebrino da Vdene)

Note

1. Colophon: This edition consists of 175 numbered copies ... The paper is handmade throughout; for the collotype plates Kelmscott Bachelor was used and for the text Montval paper. The collotype facsimile was reproduced from the original in the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum by the firm of Albert Frisch, Berlin. The text, handset in Poliphilus and Blado types was printed in January, MCMXXIX, on the handpress by the Officina Bodoni, Verona.
2. "Works of Evstachio Celebrino of Vdene," p. 21-[24]
3. Accompanied by facsimile: Il modo di Impararare di Sciuere lettera Merchantescha ... composto et fatto per ... Eustachio Cellebrino da Udene, Lo anno santo MDXXV. 4 l. 16mo.

Author

1. Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967.

Title

1. Evstachio Celebrino da Vdene, calligrapher, engraver and writer for the Venetian printing press, by Stanley Morison. With illustrations in the text and a complete collotype facsimile of The way of learning to write the lettera merchatescha, by Evstachio Celebrino, 1525.

Imprint

1. Paris, The Pegasus Press, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1929]

Local note

1. This copy is number 5.

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1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Research call number

1. *KP (Officina Bodoni, Verona) (Morison, S. Evstachio Celebrino da Vdene)