Calligrafia moderna, ossia, La maniera teorica e practica di scriver bene : ad uso delle scuole di Roma
A penmanship manual by Francesco Bessier, printed in Rome in 1823 and sold by the author for use in Roman schools. Its plates are engraved alphabet charts and model writing samples showing cursive, italic, and capital letterforms with ruled guidelines, numerals, and Roman numerals. A designer could draw on the flowing swash capitals, the varied letter spacing, and the clean line weights of these historical lettering models.
