In Die Festo Natalis, Et Circuncisionis Christi, Sapphicum Alphabeticum.
(Milan): Officina Bodoni, 1968. Oblong 12mo. (14)ff. From an edition of 80 copies, this is one of forty printed for André Jammes, the French antiquarian bookseller. With a New Year's greeting inscribed on the first free endpaper from Jammes and his family. A beautifully printed Christmas alphabet book with red calligraphic initials on each page. These elaborate initials were derived from a 1523 writing book by Ludovico Vicentino Degli Arrighi, an influential Italian bookseller, papal scribe, and typographer. Vicentino admired italic script and wrote an entire work about it; fittingly, this book is set entirely in Arrighi-Vicenza italic. The text comes from a Christmas hymn and is in the original Latin. Extremely fine in paper-covered boards that look like vellum, and housed in the original brown card slipcase. Item #22965
Price: $750.00