Verini (Giovam Baptista) - Luminario, or the Third Chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum.

Luminario, or the Third Chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum on the construction of Roman capitals, in an English version by A.F. Johnson, with an Introduction by Stanley Morison. Small folio, pp.x, 34, Cambridge: Harvard College Library, Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1947.

One of 460 (510) copies printed in the Office of The Times on wove paper. Many diagrams with the text. Decorated with two wood-engraved titled blocks by Reynolds Stome: one in red and black on the half-title, and the second 'Luminario' in red on the title-page. Grey buckram, titled in gilt on the spine. Slight fading to boards. A very good copy.

(Appleton 176, Carter 138) This is the first volume in a series 'Studies in the History of Calligraphy' edited by Philip Hofer and Stanley Pargellis. Stanley Morison's introduction occupies pp.1-12. The preface, pp.vii-viii, is also by him. 110 copies were reserved for distribution in the United Kingdom. Giovam Baptista Verini's treatise was originally published in Florence in 1527.