This facsimile edition features Betti's elaborate title-page identifying the figures to follow, and twenty-four leaves of plates, each with a different letter of the alphabet, all reproduced at original size.

Eleanor Garvey is a former Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Read More by Eleanor Garvey:

• The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton Library: A Catalogue of an Exhibition of The Philip Hofer Bequest in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
• Tenniel's Alice: Drawings by Sir John Tenniel for <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass</i>
• Fregi e Majuscole Incise e Fuse da Giambattista Bodoni: A Bodoni Keepsake