The first writing book
Subtitle: an English translation & facsimile text of Arrighi's Operina, the first manual of the chancery hand.
By: With introd. and notes by John Howard Benson.
Contributors: Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956
Series: Studies in the history of calligraphy -- 2
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Penmanship; Alphabets; Lettering
Notes: The facsimile text is "reproduced by photo-offset from a copy of the first edition [1522] in ... [J.H. Benson's] possession." - p. xi.

Bibliography: p. 47.