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Subtitle: por preceptos geometricos y reglas mathematicas
By: del m[aest]ro Juan Claudio Aznar de Polanco
Publisher: Vendese en su casa [i.e. Aznar de Polanco] en la Calle de la Zarza donde tiene escuela ...
Published: 1719
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship; Alphabets; Arithmetic; Early works to 1900
Notes: Several issues are known, identical in letterpress, but with variant states of the engravings. In the earlier issues, the engravings lack plate numbers, though some have foliation numbers engraved at upper right. In later issues, the foliation numbers are retained, and each engraving also has been given a plate number (1-42) at lower right. Earlier issues tend to be found with 37, rather than 39, writing samples, though it is unclear whether such copies were in fact issued with two fewer engravings. An intermediate issue is also known in which engraved fol. [47] bis [later plate 21] is replaced by a revised, unnumbered engraving, in longitudinal format, dated 1724.

Colophon: En Madrid: En la Imprenta de los Herederos de Manuel Ruiz de Murga, à la Calle de la Habada. Año de 1719.

Signatures (letterpress): [par.]-[2 par.]⁴ *² A-Ii⁴ KK².

Engravings: calligraphic title; frontispiece with portraits of Saints Cassianus of Imola, Nicolas of Myra, Ignatius of Loyola, and Francis Xavier; portrait of Aznar de Polanco; 39 leaves of writing samples foliated continuously with letterpress text. Most plates are signed by Aznar de Polanco; a few are dated 1718 or 1719.

Engraved fol. [120] bis also signed by the engraver: Ioannis Palomino, Cordubensis. Cotarelo y Mori assigns all of the engravings to Palomino.

Errors in foliation: numbers 46, 47, 76, 112, 120, 128, 138 duplicated; 77, 116, 129 omitted in foliation.

Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie, 123.

Cotarelo y Mori, E. Calígrafos españoles, I, 134-140.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 21133.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 137.