Calligraphy; Calligraphia Latina. / By Johann Georg Schwandner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwandner, Johann Georg von, 1716-1791.

Contributor:

Mawby, Geoffrey K.

Dixon, J. Lloyd.

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphi nomenclatione. English & Latin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lettering--Early works to 1800.

Lettering.

Penmanship.

Alphabets.

Calligraphy.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, xiv pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 158 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimile ; 34 cm

Manufacture:

New York : Binding by Publishers Book Bindery, Inc.

Other Title:

Calligraphia Latina.

Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphi nomenclatione.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [1958]

Notes:

Original t.p. reads: Joannis Georgii Schwandneri, Austriaci stadelkirchensis. Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiæ: nomenclatione, cultu, præstantia, utilitate. Viennæ Austriæ, Ex typographeo Kaliwodiano, A.O.R.M.DCC.LVI.

"An unabridged republication of Calligraphia Latina published in 1756 with the introduction translated into English for the first time by E. F. Bleiber.".

"This edition was designed by Geoffrey K. Mawby and J. Lloyd Dixon."

Bibliographical references included in "Footnotes" (pages xiii-xiv).

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy has [8] advertising leaflets, [1] envelope addressed to Dover and invoice for purchase of this item laid in.

OCLC:

5030082