Arte subtilissima
Subtitle: por la qual se enseña a escreuir perfectamente
By: hecho y experimentado, y agora de nueuo añadido, por Iuan de Yciar vizcayno
Publisher: En casa de Pedro Bernuz
Published: 1550
Place of publication: Imprimio se en Caragoça
Language: spa
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Penmanship; Early works to 1800; Copybooks; Alphabets
Other titles: Ortographia practica
Notes: Second edition, enlarged. First published Zaragoza, 1548 under title: Recopilacion subtilissima, intitulada, Orthographia pratica.

Colophon: Fue impresso el presente libro llamado Ortographia practica, enla muy noble y leal ciudad de Caragoça, en casa de Pedro Bernuz. Acabo se a veynte y tres dias del mes de Iulio, en el año de mil y quinientos y cinquenta.

Signatures: A⁶ B-L⁸.

Woodcuts: title within architectural border; arms of the dedicatee, Philip (later Philip II, King of Spain) (fol. [2]r); portrait of Iciar at age 25 (fol. [4]v); printer's devices of Georg Coci and Pedro Bernuz (fol. [86]r); writing samples, full-page borders, historiated initials. Each letterpress text page within one of four different four-part woodcut borders.

Woodcut title-page border, other full-page borders, border pieces portrait, initials, and writing samples cut by Jean de Vingles. Most of the writing samples are signed by both Iciar and Vingles and dated 1547, 1548, or 1550; the four-part borders are signed by Iciar and Vingles, and two are dated 1550.

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Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 117834.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 36.

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