A RENAISSANCE ALPHABET IL PERFETTO SCRITTORE, PARTE SECONDA
1971 · Madison
by Cresci, Giovan Francesco
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. Oblong quarto. Gilt cloth, stamped in blind. Twenty-three capital letters by Cresci, each printed twice (recto & verso of facing leaves), lightly and heavily inked. First edition of this translation by Robert J. Rodini. Introduction by Donald M. Anderson. Erasures on free endsheet, else fine in very good or better, moderately dust-smudged and price-clipped, dust jacket. (Inventory #: WRCLIT45423)