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NICOLAS BARKER - The Glory of the Art of Writing. The Complete Calligraphic Work of Francesco Alunno of Ferrara

This is the culmination of Dr. Barker's fifty years of research into the identity and work of Alunno, the most accomplished of all sixteenth-century Italian writing masters. With many new information on his life, career, and associations. It contains a text volume with a separate facsimile volume comprising 241 colour facsimiles of the 'cartoni' or plates, 112 of them from the Rothschild Alunno in the Cotsen collection. The balance of the plates are held by the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, the Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova and the Biblioteca Trivulziana in Milan.

Bound in dark blue cloth, contained in a matching case and issued in an edition of 300. A beautiful book with splendid colour illustrations of some of the most beautiful calligraphy ever created. Designed by the highly esteemed printer Patrick Reagh.

HES & DE GRAAF Publishers is the worldwide distributor for this and other publications of the Cotsen Children´s Library / Cotsen Occasional Press.

Text vol. 4to, 140 pp. Facsimile oblong 4to, with 241 colour facs.

Price: € 325,-