01956nam 2200373Ia 450 99639358790331620200824132038.0(CKB)4940000000118851(EEBO)2248557596(OCoLC)ocm33143278e(OCoLC)33143278(EXLCZ)99494000000011885119950915d1620 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|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[London] Are to be solde by Io. Sudbury & George Humble in Popeshead alley[between 1620-1630?][27] p., 28 leaves of plates illContains 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-D⁴Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.eebo-0167CopybooksCopybooks.Billingsley Martinb. 1591.1006406EBKEBKWaOLNBOOK996393587903316The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight2344649UNISA