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Publisher: Giambattista Bodoni
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Parma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Printing; Specimens
Notes: Specimens of "non-Latin" types originally intended for inclusion in Bodoni's 1788 Manuale tipografico.

Title from Brooks.

Brooks, H.C. ^Edizioni Bodoniane, 356

Bequest; Philip Hofer; 1984 November 9; PH-T130.

Bequest; Philip Hofer; 1984 November 9; PH-T131.

From the library of H.C. Brooks.

This copy consists of 26 leaves only, the specimens printed on one side only.

Bound in crimson cloth.

Brooks describes copies with 44 & 45 leaves; of the 43 leaves present in this copy, 2 are duplicates (1 Etruscan, 1 Hebrew); the number of specimens per font varies from Brooks's description.

Leaves printed on 1 side only, bound in so that the printing is on the verso.

Bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards (rebacked).

This copy consists of proofs of each specimen page, each 14 x 9 cm. and printed on one side only, horizontal chainlines, mounted in an album of contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards, 21 cm.