Writing and the Manuscript Book - Calligraphy

Lot Comprises:

A.S. Osley, Scribes and sources: handbook of the chancery hand in the sixteenth century … with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe, Boston, David R. Godine, 1980, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

Three Classics of Italian Calligraphy: An unabridged Reissue of the Writing Books of Arrighi, Tagliente and Palatino [bibliography by Alfred F. Johnson], New York, Dover Publications, 1953

David P. Becker, The Practice of Letters: The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals 1514‐1800 [in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library], Cambridge, MA, Harvard College Library, 1997, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Stephen Harvard, An Italian Copybook: The Cataneo Manuscript [in the Newberry Library, Chicago], New York for Houghton & Newberry Libraries, 1981, publisher's black cloth, dust jacket (two copies)

Lee Hendrix & Thea Vignau‐Wilberg, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth‐Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel, Malibu, Getty Museum, 1992, square 12mo., publisher's brown cloth, slipcase

Stanley Morison, Early Italian Writing Books: Renaissance to Baroque (Nicolas Barker, ed.), London, British Library, 1988, 8vo., publisher's brown cloth gilt, dust jacket

Opera di Giovanniantonio Tagliente: The 1525 Edition, Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by James M. Wells, Chicago, Newberry Library, 1952, oblong 8vo., publisher's patterned boards

A.S. Osley, Luminario: An Introduction to the Italian Writing‐Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nieuwkoop, Miland Publishers, 1972, fol., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket, letter enclosed from B. de Graaf of Miland Publishers to the editor (Frederic Melcher) of Publisher's Weekly sending the book as a reviewer's copy; bookplate of Frederic Melcher (1879‐1963)

Wilfrid Blunt, In Praise of Italic: Catalogue of an exhibition arranged for the National Book League, October‐December 1954, London, The National Book League, 1954, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers, in library pamphlet binder

Wolffgang Fugger's Handwriting Manual Entitled A Practical and Well‐Grounded Formulary for Divers Fair Hands (translated by F. Platt), London, 1955, oblong 4to., publisher's printed boards, slipcase

Sold as a group, not subject to return.