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Record Nr.

UNISA996393587903316

Autore

Billingsley Martin <b. 1591.>

Titolo

The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight [[electronic resource] ] : wherein aswell the abuses wch [sic] are offered vnto ye worthines of ye pen by unworthie pen men are trulie dicovered, and ye dignity of ye art it self by ye antiquitie, excellencie & diversitie thereof is breifly demonstrated : together with an insertion of sondrie peeces, or examples, of all ye vsuall hands of England : as also an addition of certaine methodicall observations for writing, making of the pen, holding the pen, &c. / / written by Martin Billingsley ... ; the Greeke & Hebrewe with other peeces never yet extant are hereunto by the authour exactlie added

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Are to be solde by Io. Sudbury & George Humble in Popeshead alley, [between 1620-1630?]

Descrizione fisica

[27] p., 28 leaves of plates : ill

Soggetti

Copybooks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains engraved t.p. and letter of dedication.

Imperfect: some leaves of plates unnumbered; engraved port., plate 26, some others? lacking.

Signature B² recto line 3 ends ànd'; line 14 has C̀arpers' with swash C̀'.

Signatures: B-D⁴

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0167