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Record Nr.

UNISA996392098803316

Titolo

A nevv booke, containing all sortes of handes vsually written at this daie in Christendom [[electronic resource] ] : as the English and French secretarie, the Roman, Italian, French, Spanish, high and low Dutch, Court and Chancerie handes: with examples of each of them in their proper tongue and letter. Also an example of the true and iust proportion of the Roman capitals. Collected by the best approved writers in these languages, now first published

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : [By R. Field] by William Kearney, 1590

Descrizione fisica

[112] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

E. B <fl. 1571.>

Soggetti

Penmanship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Printer's name from STC.

The woodcut specimens contain only a few from: Beau-Chesne, Jehan de.  Le tresor d'escriture--STC.

Has later setting than STC 6446 of the "Rules made by E.B. for his children to learn to write by". The "Rules" here read: "Rules made by E.B. for children to write by". The first section of the "Rules" ends: "colour more dimme". The Bodleian Library has a single leaf fragment printed about this time, but with "coloure more dymme"--Cf. STC.

Last leaf blank.

Signatures: A B-N⁴.

Formerly STC 6447.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018