Splendour of Ornament

Morison (Stanley).  Specimens selected from the Essempio di recammi, the first Italian manual of decoration, Venice, 1524 by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente; his life and literary remains, the Essempio di recammi and his typographical style by Esther Potter. Preface by Berthold Wolpe Colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations in colour and grey-and-white Lion and Unicorn Press,  1968 First Edition One of [400] numbered copies  4to Original gold cloth Jacquard woven by James Lawson in the School of Textile Design of the Royal College of Art in Dicel yarns from British Celanese Ltd Fine copy   

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