Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excelle[n]te scriuere de diuerse varie sorti de litere
Subtitle: lequali se fano p[e]r geometrica ragione & con la presente opera ognuno le potra imparare impochi giorni p[er] lo amaistramento, ragione, & essempli, come qui seguente vederai
By: opera del Tagliente nouamente composta cum gratia nel anno di n[ost]ra salute MDXXXIX
Contributors: Celebrino, Eustachio, approximately 1480-approximately 1555
Publisher: Per Giouanniantonio de Nicolini da Sabio
Published: 1539
Place of publication: Stampato in Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Alphabets; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Arte de escribir
Work titles: Presente libro insegna la vera arte dello eccellente scrivere
Notes: First published 1524 with blocks cut by Eustachio Celebrino. Expanded eds. in 1525. See A.S. Osley, Luminario, p. 18, 24.

Imprint from colophon.

"Il libro contiene dei modelli di Lettera cancellaresca, mercantesca, francesca, antiqua tonda, fiorentina, bollatica, imperiale, et gli alfabeti ebraico, persiano, e caldeo"--Bonacini 1807, describing 1st ed.

Except for letterpress dedication on verso of 1st leaf, printed from woodcut blocks through p. [48], from there on largely in italic letterpress. Two full-page ill. depicting writing paraphernalia, p. [54], and an astronomer observing the heavens, p. [64].

Rectos of 2nd through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner (signatures?).

Leaf [22] verso printed upside down.

Bonacini, C.  Arti scrittorie, 1826

Binding: later vellum (19th cent.?). Two spine labels with author and with place and date in gilt. Closely trimmed at top and in places at foredge, with minor losses.

Owner's inscription on ill., p. [54]: Jno. Paynter his Booke. Arithmetic sums on ill. on last p.