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Form genre ss Writing books.

Classification Books

1. Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent. A new copy-book, wherein are revived, and comprized, all the most useful, and ornamental pieces, published by the best masters in Europe. To which are added, some curious modern pieces never before extant. Collected, & engraved by Geo. Bickham.

Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent. A new copy-book, wherein are revived, and comprized, all the most useful, and ornamental pieces, published by the best masters in Europe. To which are added, some curious modern pieces never before extant. Collected, & engraved by Geo. Bickham.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 4 p. front., 61 plates. 25 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The penman's repository : containing twenty correct alphabets, ... a valuable selection of flourishes, and a variety of new designs / by William Milns ...

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Creator:: Milns, William, 1761–1801
Date:: [1787]
Physical Description:: 32 leaves ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The museum of arts: or, The curious repository. By George Bickham, engraver of all sorts of work on copper-plates.

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Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1745?]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 75 plates (part. col., part double) front. 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The origin and progress of letters : an essay, in two parts. The first shewing when, and by whom letters were invented; the formation of the alphabets of various nations; their manner of writing, on what materials, and with what instruments men have written in different ages to the present time. Wherein is considered the great utility of this art with regard to mankind. The second part consists of a compendious account of the most celebrated English penmen, with the titles and characters of the books they have published both from the rolling and letterpress. Interspersed with many interesting particulars by way of notes throughout the first part; and the second is a new species of biography never before attempted in English. The whole collected from undoubted authorities / by W. Massey, master of a boarding school for many years at Wandsworth in Surry.

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Creator:: Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 160, [12], 175, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The universal penman; or, The art of writing made useful to the gentleman and scholar, as well as the man of business : exemplified in all the useful and ornamental branches of modern penmanship : with some necessary observations on the excellency of the pen, and a large number of select sentences in prose and verse : various forms of business, relating to merchandize and trade : letters on several occasions : accurate specimens of the oriental languages, and alphabets in all the hands now practis'd / written, with the friendly assistance of several of the most eminent masters,and engrav'd by Geo. Bickham ; the whole embelish'd with beautiful decorations for the amusement of the curious.

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Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:: 1743
Physical Description:: 212 numbered leaves ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts