Luminario. An Introduction to the Italian writing-books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- ISBN: 9789060042953
- Year: 1972
- Size: Small folio
- Binding: Cloth
- Illustration: With 116 full-size facsimiles, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs
- Pages: XIII, 173 pp
The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books.
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"This is a brilliant and fascinating book" (Reynolds Stone in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts March 1974). "A.S. Osley has written an admirably level-headed introduction to the study of these masters of writing" (Times Literary Supplement). "Here is a handsome book for the student of calligraphy, but it is also an endurung document for the history of writing" (Lawrence S. Thompson in `The American Book Collector` 23,4, 1973).