Arte de escrevir
By: de Francisco Lucas ... ; diuidida en quatro partes ...
Contributors: Cuesta, Juan de la, active 1605, printer; Robles, Francisco de, bookseller
Publisher: En casa de Iuan de la Cuesta; Vendese en casa de Francisco de Robles librero ...
Published: 1608
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Notes: Fourth edition. This edition closely follows the second edition (Madrid: Alonso Gomez, 1577), and includes only one of the woodcuts added to the third edition (Madrid: Francisco Sánchez, 1580).  Cf. Cotarelo y Mori.

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-N⁴ O⁸ P⁴ Q² R⁸ S-T⁴ V⁶ X-Z⁴.

Errors in foliation.

Woodcuts: Spanish royal arms on t.p., full- and half-page writing samples (the half-page samples within grotesque borders), initials. Most of the writing samples are printed on rectos only.

Most of the writing samples are signed by Lucas and dated 1570, 1576, or 1577.

Text of parts one and three set in italic type.

Bonacini, C.  Arte scrittorie, 1088

Cotarelo y Mori, E.  Calígrafos españoles, I, p. 432

Pérez Pastor, C.  Bib. madrileña, II, 1008

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 143328