Shelfmark
H.tbs
Author
Title
Andres Brun, calligrapher of Saragossa : some account of his life and work / by Henry Thomas & Stanley Morison ; with a facsimile in collotype of the surviving text and plates of his two writing books 1583 & 1612.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Arte muy provechoso para aprender de escrivir perfectamente
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris : The Pegasus Press, 1929.
Physical description
29, [9] p., 48 leaves : facsims. ; 31 cm.
Note
Facsimile printed in red and black, with title page of edition printed for Juan de Larumbe in Saragossa, 1612: Arte muy provechoso para aprender de escrivir perfectamente.
Note
"This edition consists of 175 numbered copies of which 150 are for sale."
Note
"The collotype facsimile was reproduced from the original in the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum by the firm of Albert Frisch, Berlin. The text, hand-set in Jenson-type, was printed upon the hand-press by the Officina Bodoni Verona November MCMXXVIII."
Note
Loosely inserted printed slip noting that the calligraphic specimens in the facsimile are numbered in pencil by hand.
Note
Publisher's cream cloth binding with spine title and ornamental borders and spine decoration stamped in red.
Provenance
Book stamp of the [Eton College] Drawing Schools and ms. note that the book was transferred to Eton College Library in 1984.
Provenance
20th century armorial bookplate and circular book stamp of Eton College Library.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is no. 64.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Bk.3.15.
Subject
Subject
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Pegasus Press (Paris, France) publisher.
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Eton College Drawing Schools former owner.
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France Paris.
Identifier
B46923