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1577. BOOK: (CALLIGRAPHY). LUCAS, FRANCISCO: ARTE DE ESCREVIR DE [...]. VEZINO DE SEVILLA, RESIDENTE EN CORTE DE SU MAGESTAD. DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS. Madrid: in the house of Alonso Gómez, Impressor de su Magestad, 1577. 8º mayor. 7 h. (of 8, the last of 'Al discreto lector' is missing) + 1 h. of 'Tasa' signed by Juan Hernandez de Herrera+ 96 fol. (=100, but 3 h. are missing, folios 29, 32, and 56). Title page with coat of arms of Philip II in mannerist border. Text in italic typography for the first part up to folio 24, continues from folio 25 to 45 (folios 29 and 32 are missing) + 18 plates of samples of the 'bastard letter'; the 'Parte segunda' in roman typography (since it is the 'Redondilla' letter, folios 45 to 66, (fol.56 is missing), includes 10 plates, including 10 plates, folios 45 to 66, (fol.56 is missing).), includes 10 plates, and end of chapter within a full page border; the 'Parte tercera [...] is again printed in italic typography, folios 67 to 88, includes 6 plates and in recto of the last one, end of chapter with full page border; the 'Parte quarta [...] cerca de las letras Latinas, y del redondo de libros', folios numbered 89 to 96, includes 7 plates and end of chapter printed on four leaves (recto and verso). All the plates are drawn by the same author, and practically all bear the date Madrid 1577, except the last ones which are dated 1570. Copy with remargined title page and restorations in the margins, old damp stains; many handwritten notes and underlining of some calligrapher, one of them signs 'Casanova' [José de Casanova, 1613-1692, calligrapher]. Enc. 19th c., on half parchment with tips, and double tejuelo. First edition of extraordinary rarity. The famous pendolista author (Seville 1530- Madrid, 1580), published a first work in Toledo, 1571. In 1577, he published in Madrid, his first complete edition of the four parts and with the plates opened that same year. It would be reedited in 1580 and 1608. Francisco Lucas (Seville?, 1530 - after 1580) is the first calligraphy treatise writer who established the Spanish style of the bastarda, very different from the bastarda cancilleresca of Iciar. He taught the first letters in Seville. His disciple there was Juan de Sarabia, another teacher who spread the teachings of Lucas. Simón Díaz XIII, 4153. Maggs Bros, 1927, 63 pounds. Palau 143326.
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1577. BOOK: (CALLIGRAPHY). LUCAS, FRANCISCO: ARTE DE ESCREVIR DE [...]. VEZINO DE SEVILLA, RESIDENTE EN CORTE DE SU MAGESTAD. DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS. Madrid: in the house of Alonso Gómez, Impressor de su Magestad, 1577. 8º mayor. 7 h. (of 8, the last of 'Al discreto lector' is missing) + 1 h. of 'Tasa' signed by Juan Hernandez de Herrera+ 96 fol. (=100, but 3 h. are missing, folios 29, 32, and 56). Title page with coat of arms of Philip II in mannerist border. Text in italic typography for the first part up to folio 24, continues from folio 25 to 45 (folios 29 and 32 are missing) + 18 plates of samples of the 'bastard letter'; the 'Parte segunda' in roman typography (since it is the 'Redondilla' letter, folios 45 to 66, (fol.56 is missing), includes 10 plates, including 10 plates, folios 45 to 66, (fol.56 is missing).), includes 10 plates, and end of chapter within a full page border; the 'Parte tercera [...] is again printed in italic typography, folios 67 to 88, includes 6 plates and in recto of the last one, end of chapter with full page border; the 'Parte quarta [...] cerca de las letras Latinas, y del redondo de libros', folios numbered 89 to 96, includes 7 plates and end of chapter printed on four leaves (recto and verso). All the plates are drawn by the same author, and practically all bear the date Madrid 1577, except the last ones which are dated 1570. Copy with remargined title page and restorations in the margins, old damp stains; many handwritten notes and underlining of some calligrapher, one of them signs 'Casanova' [José de Casanova, 1613-1692, calligrapher]. Enc. 19th c., on half parchment with tips, and double tejuelo. First edition of extraordinary rarity. The famous pendolista author (Seville 1530- Madrid, 1580), published a first work in Toledo, 1571. In 1577, he published in Madrid, his first complete edition of the four parts and with the plates opened that same year. It would be reedited in 1580 and 1608. Francisco Lucas (Seville?, 1530 - after 1580) is the first calligraphy treatise writer who established the Spanish style of the bastarda, very different from the bastarda cancilleresca of Iciar. He taught the first letters in Seville. His disciple there was Juan de Sarabia, another teacher who spread the teachings of Lucas. Simón Díaz XIII, 4153. Maggs Bros, 1927, 63 pounds. Palau 143326.
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