Felice Feliciano: Alphabetum Romanum.

£850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

One of the 400 copies of the English edition, translated by R.H. Boothroyd, of this handsome facsimile of the treatise by Felice Felciano on the geometrical contruction of Roman capital letters using the square and circle (now Codex Vat. lat. 6852). There were also German and French editions published in the same year.Mardersteig contributed an excellent introduction on the revival of the letter-forms in Roman inscription and on Felice Feliciano and his alphabet construction.A good copy, despite the rubbing to the slipcase and a couple of tiny marks on the upper cover, with the single prospectus leaf inserted loose into the book although it has a slightly roughed up bottom edge

• Binding: Hardcover

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