AUGUSTINO DA SIENA

David R. Godine, Boston, 1975, 1st thus.  Numbered copy 687.  ISBN 0-87923-128-9.  Hard cover, unpaginated.  Near fine; brown cloth with publisher’s logo in gold on front board, gold lettering on spine.  Binding sound with head and tail bands.  Near fine dust jacket in archival covering.  Brown end papers; interior clean and unmarked.  Publisher’s promotional leaflet (Opera Del Reverendo Padre Don Augustino Da Sciena) laid in as well as bookmark detailing type, paper, binding, end papers, jacket paper, designers and printer.  ‘To honor Alfred Fairbank on his eightieth birthday in 1975, David R. Godine in the United States and The Merrion Press in England have collaborated in publishing this facsimile of the rare and superb writing manual of Augustino da Siena.  This is the last of the great writing manuals to be cut in wood, and to examine its place in the continuum of calligraphic manuals and to elucidate its text, Alfred Fairbank, the grand master of calligraphers, has written a scholarly introduction.’ (from front flap)