CRESCI, Giovanni Francesco. Alphabet, series of engraved interlace letters, within ornamental borders. [Rome?: F. Aureri for the author, ca 1570].
CRESCI, Giovanni Francesco. Alphabet, series of engraved interlace letters, within ornamental borders. [Rome?: F. Aureri for the author, ca 1570]. Obong 4 o (181 x 259 mm). 22 (of 23) plates of letters within as many different engraved borders. (Lacking the letter "Z", some plates with marginal repair one affecting border.) Modern boards. Provenance : Stephanie Hopper, 1984. The "knot alphabet" ("al fabeto a groppi") - signed by Andrea Marelli in the engraved border - was published separately but also as one of three alphabets forming the second part of the first edition of Cresci's work "Il perfetto scrittore," his second calligraphy manual. Berlin 5187; See Johnson p.38-40; and Morison p.103-106.
CRESCI, Giovanni Francesco. Alphabet, series of engraved interlace letters, within ornamental borders. [Rome?: F. Aureri for the author, ca 1570].
CRESCI, Giovanni Francesco. Alphabet, series of engraved interlace letters, within ornamental borders. [Rome?: F. Aureri for the author, ca 1570]. Obong 4 o (181 x 259 mm). 22 (of 23) plates of letters within as many different engraved borders. (Lacking the letter "Z", some plates with marginal repair one affecting border.) Modern boards. Provenance : Stephanie Hopper, 1984. The "knot alphabet" ("al fabeto a groppi") - signed by Andrea Marelli in the engraved border - was published separately but also as one of three alphabets forming the second part of the first edition of Cresci's work "Il perfetto scrittore," his second calligraphy manual. Berlin 5187; See Johnson p.38-40; and Morison p.103-106.
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