Libro primo di cancellaresche corsiue
By: scritte da Cesare Picchi dvrantino in Roma
Contributors: Rossi, Giovanni Battista, fl. 1609; Blanco, Christoforo
Publisher: Joan. Batt. de Rossi ... excudit ..., Christoforvs Blancvs fecit Romae ...
Published: 1609
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Lettering; Early works to 1800; Calligraphy; Penmanship
Other titles: Libro primo di cancellaresche corsive
Notes: Engraved throughout. All leaves after dedication have engraved frame, numbered at lower right. Cristoforo Blanco's dedication is dated March, 1596, at Rome.

Bonacini, C.  Arti scritorie, 1423

Osley, A.S.  Luminario, p. 115

Getty copy closely cropped at right margins, with some loss to numbering and text. Title leaf wanting; copy begins with dedication. Title and imprint taken from Bonacini (Osley gives 1600 rather than 1609 as publication date). The 23 leaves of Getty copy comprise 20 of 24 leaves published, together with 3 duplicate leaves.

Getty copy not bound. In modern velvet-lined portfolio covered in blind-tooled goatskin, spine tooled in gilt, secured with orange silk ties.