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Fanti, Sigismondo. THEORICA ET PRATICA...DE MODO SCRIBENDI FABRICANDIQUE OMNES LITTERARUM SPECIES. VENICE: GIOVANNI ROSSO, 1 DEC, 1514, FOUR-PIECE WHITE-ON-BLACK WOODCUT BORDERS SIGNED "L A F", WOODCUT DIAGRAMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, WOODCUT WHITE-ON-BLACK FLORIATED INITIALS, PEN TRIALS ON FINAL LEAF, SMALL PORTION OF LOWER OUTER CORNER OF FINAL LEAF CUT AWAY Palatino, Giovanni Battista Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettere antiche e moderne. Rome: Madonna Girolama de Cartolari, May 1544, woodcut portrait on title-page, woodcut illustrations, full-page woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, pen trials on first leaf, some ink marginalia, title-page rather soiled with small portion of lower outer corner cut away, small marginal tear to final leaf 2 works in one volume (Palatino bound first), 4to (200 x 146mm.), seventeenth-century speckled calf gilt, Courtenay crest gilt stamped on upper cover, head and tail of spine chipped with slight loss