Ammaestramenti teoricopratici indirizzati ad agevolare il modo dimparare da per se la scrittura moderna....
first edition
by Decaroli, F.
Torino (Fratelli Reycends), 1772.. 46 engraved plates (including title-page); lacking frontis. portrait. Lrg. folio. Contemporary mottled blue boards, 3/4 vellum (somewhat worn, front cover repaired). Plates 1-44 engraved by P.S. Petit; the two unnumbered supplementary plates at end (called for by Bonacini, but not usually found) engraved by Pillon. The work is a rare and elegant example of 18th century calligraphy. All of Decarolis plates have narrow decorative borders all around, each different from the other, and numerous calligraphic designs adorn the text. In some plates...the specimens are particularly refined, denoting the typical elegance of the time (Marzoli). Like the Hofer copy, this copy bears traces of an effaced additional line at the foot of the title-page, which led Becker to surmise that it may be a later printing of the first edition. Like the copy at the Newberry Library, this copy lacks the frontispiece portrait of Victor Amadeus Maria, King of Sardinia, by Giovanni Battista Betti. A little very light soiling. (Inventory #: B75872-2)