WRITING & CALLIGRAPHY BOOKS - Ars Libri Ltd.

1 WRITING & CALLIGRAPHY BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF PETER A. WICKARS Libri 155 WRITING & CALLIGRAPHY BOOKSFrom the Library of Peter A. WickARS Libri MemoriamDAVID P. BECKER1947 - 2010 Friend Connoisseur ActivistDistinguished scholar of WRITING manualsARS Libri LTD500 Harrison AvenueBoston, Massachusetts : items are in good antiquarian condition, unless otherwise prices are net. Massachusetts residents should add sales items will be held for two weeks pending receipt of paymentor formal from individuals unknown to us must be accompanied by pay-ment or by satisfactory references. All items may be returned, if returned within two weeks in the same con-dition as sent, and if packed, shipped and insured as ordering from this catalogue please refer to Catalogue NumberOne Hundred and Fifty-Five and indicate the item number(s).Overseas clients must remit in dollar funds, payable on a , or transfer the amount due directly to the account of Ars Libri Ltd.

2 ,Cambridge Trust Company, 1336 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,MA 02238, Account No. , Visa and American Express note about the catalogueThe selection of BOOKS in this catalogue represents only a portion of theoriginal collection of WRITING and CALLIGRAPHY BOOKS formed over thecourse of several decades by Peter A. Wick (1920-2004). The balanceof the collection was acquired from Ars Libri by the Library of Congressin September 2010. In addition to WRITING manuals and CALLIGRAPHY BOOKS per se, the collec-tion includes varia of related interest, such as pictorial alphabet BOOKS ,and early studies and histories of the development of Wick's collection of fable literature (171 items published between1570 and 1953) is currently available, en bloconly, from Ars Libri ;please contact us for further details. Other sections of the Wick library,including English and Continental literature, will be offered in 2011.

3 Alsoavailable from Ars Libri are individual drawings and watercolors from theWick collection, including works byMola, Parrocel, Cochin, Reynolds,Pillement, Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Desprez, Flaxman, Horace Vernet,Grandville, Gavarni, Forain, Signac, Vuillard, Rouault, Marquet andothers. Details on Wick s collection of children s BOOKS was acquired from Ars Libri in2007 by the Universit degli Studi di Milano, where it has been thesubject of several new publications. Mr. Wick s collection of FrenchRomantic literature and illustrated BOOKS has just been acquired fromArs Libri by an American 20101 ADAM, VICTOR[Les charades alphab tiques.] 25 lithographic plates, eachwith multiple vignette illustrations within dec. figurative bor-ders; (1)f. (table). (8)-pp. publisher s catalogue at end. Theplates carry printers credits to Aubert and to Benard et oblong folio.

4 Cloth, 3/4 red morocco, with moroccosupralibros title. The album was simultaneously published inLondon (Ch. Tilt) and New York (Bailly Ward & Co.). Its titleappeared on the front wrapper (not present with this copy).A few small marginal tears, binding slightly worn.[Paris (Aubert), 1840?]$ Beraldi: Les graveurs du 19. si cle ; Biblioth queNationale, Dept. des Estampes: Inventaire du fondsfran aise apr s 1800, , JOHANN CHRISTOPHV ollkommene Gr nd- und Regulm ssige Anweisung zurSch n-Schreib-Kunst, darinnen Man gar leicht die C rrent-Canzle - und Fractur-Schrifften; ingleichen auch dieLateinische Cursiv- Rotund- und Romanische Schrifft , nebst denen darzu geh rigen allerseitigen VersalBuchstaben vor sich selbst schreiben lernen kan, wobe auch noch Ein grosses Zier Fractur-Alphabet mit artigen-aufjeden Buchstaben sich schickenden Figuren engraved title-page, 25 engraved plates (numbered 1-11, plus 14 unnumbered plates).

5 Sm. oblong folio. Contem-porary dull blue wraps., stitched (lacking back cover). Presumably the first edition; the 1776 date appears only onplate 10. The engraving is unattributed. The 14 unnumberedplates at the end comprise an alphabet of extraordinarymonumental decorative initials incorporating appropriatefigures, such as a money (Affe) for A, a barber (Barbier) forB, a painter (Maler) for M, etc. (Becker). One mended tear,last two plates with small marginal losses at foot; intermit-tent soiling; central rnberg (In Verlegung Joh: And: Endterischer Handlung)[1776].$2, Bonacini 16; Becker: Hofer Collection 172; Doede 205;Berlin 4921; Jessen 2370; Hauswedell 3013 ALEXANDER, WILLIAMThe Eight Beatitudes. St. Matthew, Chap. V. Written andengraved by William Alexander. 10 engraved plates(including title-page). Tissue guards. Sm. oblong boards,3/4 red morocco (covers somewhatscuffed).

6 An early issue, before the addition of the publish-er s statement to the title-page, ad without the (5)-pp. list ofsubscribers. A little light wear; tissue guards slightly foxed.[London (The Author) 1822]$ Not in Bonacini4 ALEXANDER, WILLIAMThe Eight Beatitudes. St. Matthew, Chap. V written andengraved by William Alexander. Engraved title-page, (5) list of subscribers, 9 engraved calligraphic plates(numbered 2-10). Sm. oblong folio. Contemporary blackcloth, 3/4 red morocco. Intermittent light soiling, affectingfoot of title, dedication and one plate; lacking (W. Alexander Engraver & Printer to Her RoyalHighness the Duchess of Clarence), Jan. 1st, 1822.$ Not in Bonacini The Library of Peter A. Wick72ars Libri 85 ALLAIS, JEAN-BAPTISTEL art d ecrire par Alais. 12pp., 24 unnumbered engravedplates (including engraved title). Four of the plates aresigned both by Allais and by the engraver Louis folio.

7 Boards, 1/4 green vellum. A second issue of the first edition of 1680, which includedan identical section of plates; the letterpress has beenreset. Allais book is a valuable treatise on the art of cal-ligraphy. There are few purely ornamental decorations,major importance having been given by the calligrapher tothe instructions, illustrations, tables of exercises and dia-grams which explain the technique of a perfect Frenchhand (Marzoli). Vellum split at front hinge; generally afine, fresh (Chez Jean Mariette, ru Saint Jacques, auxColonnes d Hercules), 1698.$4, Becker: Hofer Collection 92; Jammes 34; Cf. the following,citing the 1680 edition: Bonacini 27, Berlin 5117, Marzoli 566 ANDRADE DE FIGUEIREDO, MANOEL DENova escola para aprender a ler, escrever, & parte (all published). Engraved royal coat of armssupported by angels over the city of Lisbon, engraved por-trait of the author (both of the foregoing by Bernard Picart),(12)ff.

8 , 156pp., engraved calligraphic section title, 44engraved plates. Wood-engraved culs-de-lampe and let-trines. Lrg. 4to. 19th-century marbled boards, 1/4 mottledcalf (hairline splits at hinges).First edition, second issue (as is the Hofer copy), distin-guishable, according to Campos Ferreira Lima, by details ofthe typography and vignette decoration of the title-page. Andrade de Figueiredo was born in Espirito Santo, wherehis father was Governor of the Capitania. The fine portraitis dated 1721 and is showing Figueiredo at the age of was an eminent calligrapher and a creator of the Por-tuguese handwriting until the reign of Don Jos I ( ). His work follows the style of the great Italian mas-ters in its use of clubbed ascenders and descenders, andof Diaz Morante, the famous Spanish WRITING master, in itsvery elaborate show of command of hand. By his contem-poraries, he was known as the Morante portugues (Ekstr m).

9 Ce livre est un manuel, compos de quatre parties, des-tin apprendre lire, crire, conter ainsi quel orthographe. Les planches comportent des examplesd critures, d alphabets et de textes orn s de remar-quables traits de plume ex cut s d une main s re etenjou e (Jammes). A fine Occidental (Na Officina de Bernardo da Costa deCarvalho) [1722].$6, Bonacini 66; Becker: Hofer Collection 138; Berlin 5246; Vic-toria and Albert 116; Jammes 49; Hutton 4; Ekstr m p. 32f.;Whalley 1980, p. 278; Campos Ferreira Lima p. 7ff.; Borbade Moraes DE FIGUEIREDO, MANOEL DENova escola para aprender a ler, escrever, & parte (all published). A large paper copyof thefirst edition, second issue (cf. item 6 above), however lack-ing the engraved coat-of-arms and portrait. Intermittent lightsoiling and spotting, binding a little Occidental (Na Officina de Bernardo da Costa deCarvalho) [1722].

10 $4, 8 ARAUJO, ANT NIO JACINTO DENova arte de escrever offerecida ao Principe Nosso Senhor,para instruc o da 25, (1)pp. letterpress text,25 engraved plates (including allegorical frontispiece of Lis-bon after a design by Jeronymo de Barros-Ferreira, andengraved second title-page). Engraved armorial device onletterpress title, 1 engraved figure, 13 wood-engraved let-trines with architectural motifs. Oblong folio. Contemporaryspeckled calf gilt, with fine gilt supralibros title. Araujo was a Portuguese calligrapher and, as we learnfrom the title-page of his Arte de escrever, Professor ofWriting and Arithmetic. He adds that he was Correspondentof the Imperial Academy of Science in St. Petersburg (Mar-zoli). The majority of the plates were engraved by Jos L cio da Costa; four were engraved by Manuel da The plates are dated from 1783 to 1790.