Giarré (Gaetano). Alfabeto di lettere iniziali adorno di animali e proseguito da vaga serie di caratteri, Florence: Giacomo Moro, 1797, 25 engraved decorative calligraphic plates including title, occasional spotting and several leaves browned, modern boards with patterned sides and leather spine label, slightly rubbed, folio (39.5 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Berlin Katalog 5225. Each of the 25 copper-engraved leaves gives calligraphic examples of Roman and other alphabets, including Greek and Hebrew. They are beautifully decorated with floral garlands, arabesques, birds, animals, vases, trophies and masks. Stanley Morison 'The market for writing books appeared to go underground for a hundred years, only emerging at the end of the eighteenth century, when the Florentine master, Gaetano Giarré began to produce entirely and refreshingly novel books, in Neo-Classical style'.
Giarré (Gaetano). Alfabeto di lettere iniziali adorno di animali e proseguito da vaga serie di caratteri, Florence: Giacomo Moro, 1797, 25 engraved decorative calligraphic plates including title, occasional spotting and several leaves browned, modern boards with patterned sides and leather spine label, slightly rubbed, folio (39.5 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Berlin Katalog 5225. Each of the 25 copper-engraved leaves gives calligraphic examples of Roman and other alphabets, including Greek and Hebrew. They are beautifully decorated with floral garlands, arabesques, birds, animals, vases, trophies and masks. Stanley Morison 'The market for writing books appeared to go underground for a hundred years, only emerging at the end of the eighteenth century, when the Florentine master, Gaetano Giarré began to produce entirely and refreshingly novel books, in Neo-Classical style'.
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