ALPHABETUM ROMANUM.
Edited [and with a long Introduction] by Giovanni Mardersteig. Translated by R. H. Boothroyd. Pp. 138+[2](blank, colophon, with press device in red), 25 hand coloured letters, all with a corresponding black & white construction grid, 5 black & white plates (one double page), text illustrations, bibliographical notes; small med. 8vo; full brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, with five raised bands, publisher's device in gilt near centre of upper board, the spine slightly faded, boards lightly marked; t.e.g., others uncut; within light green card slipcase decorated in darker green, faintly marked; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing; Editiones Officinae Bodoni, Verona, 1960. English edition, being one of 400 numbered copies. Barr 60. *An edition of Codex Vat. lat. 6852, an autograph manuscript from not later than 1460 which contains a treatise by the Veronese humanist Felice Feliciano on the geometrical construction of Roman capital letters. Includes a long essay by Mardersteig on aspects of Feliciano's life and work. The title page decoration and twenty-five letters of the alphabet were coloured by Ameglio Trivella. German and Italian versions were also published in the same year. Item #172390
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