Le meraviglie della penna conchiudenti in diversi modi di scrivere delineati, et intagliati

by Agostino Tensini

$3,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

Extremely rare first edition of a Baroque Italian calligraphy manual for students. The present copy contains 19 handwriting and calligraphic samples, almost all ornately embellished with figures of men, women, cherubs, birds, insects, or domestic animals, in addition to a portrait of Tensini after the title-page. Tensini’s samples, mostly passages..... More

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