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A popular French writing manual with 40 calligraphic plates
BLEGNY, Etienne de.Les elemens ou premieres instructions de la jeunesse.      Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1605 [=1705?]. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. With full-page engraved portrait of the author, 40 full-page plates with calligraphic specimens engraved by C.A. Berey, and one engraved plate with the tables of multiplication. [12], 20, 315, [5] pp. A rare edition of this popular and attractive French writing manual. The 40 plates are divided into two sections, the first titled 'Nouveaux exemplaires d'ecriture d'une beauté singuliar', the second 'Exemplaires d'ecriture Italienne batarde'. In addition to handwriting, the text includes chapters on manners, orthography, composition, and arithmetic. Blegny, a Paris writing master, first published his manual in 1691, and it stayed popular throughout the 18th century. Binding rubbed and slightly damaged at top and bottom of spine; some annotations and traces of use; a few leaves loose. Good copy of this writing manual.
Bonacini 223 (the calligraphed specimens only, undated); cf. Berlin Kat. 5119 (ed. 1735); Gumuchian 5170-5171 (editions 1735 and 1751); Marzioli 57 (ed. 1691).
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