26 results filtered with: Penmanship - Early works to 1800
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The practical pen-man: a new copy-book, containing the usual hands of Great Britain; more particularly the law-hands; ... By Thomas Ollyfe, ...
Ollyffe, Thomas, -approximately 1725.Date: 1713- Books
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Bowles's Roman and Italic print alphabets, on a large size complete; With figures, double letters, and the most useful diphthongs in the modern taste; designed chiefly for the use of painters, engravers, carvers, grave-stone cutters, masons, plumbers, and other artificers; likewise very useful for merchants and tradesmens clerks.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.Date: [1775]- Books
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Penmanship: or, The Art of Fair Writing. A new essay. Containing, Reasons for the Generality of bad Hands, and how to establish a good one: Likewise, plain Directions for holding the Pen, the Position of the Body in sitting to write the various Hands, and how to make and mend Pens, or alter them to any Hand. With some useful Instructions for the better attaining of Ornamental Writing. The whole adapted to General Use. By J. Champion.
Champion, Joseph, 1709-approximately 1765.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Number I. (to be completed in ten monthly numbers, each to contain four plates,) Engraved by Ashby, and printed on Royal Folio, The penman's repository; containing a great number of Correct and Distinct alphabets in the various hands and languages, also a variety of Elegant New Designs, with A Curious and Valuable selection of flourishes. By William Milns, member of St. Mary Hall, Oxford; author of the well-bred scholar, &c. &c. and master of the city commercial school, George Yard, Lombard Street.
Milns, William, 1761-1801.Date: 1795]- Books
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The British youth's instructor: or, The useful penman. A new copy-book. Containing alphabets and sentences in round text, large and small round hand, and running hand: an abstract of the theory of writing, initial letters, struck capitals, and other curious decorations. Written, by several of the best masters, and engrav'd by George Bickham Senr.
Date: 1754- Books
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The whole system of penmanship, or, writing-master's companion. Containing the greatest variety of complete alphabets in the English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew-languages, ... All written by the most eminent-masters, and engraved by George Bickham Senr, Jno Howard, & Tho. Gardner, on 36 copper plates.
Date: [1755?]- Books
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The surrey and Southwark writing-master. A new county copy-book. Containing, an accurate, though compendious description of the above county, With its Representatives in Parliament: The Churches in each Town, and their Distances from London, Oxford and Cambridge; with their Arms and Common Seals, as sent to the Office of the Crown, and as called over in the House of Commons, according to the Test Roll: Also, an Account of the Air, Soil, Rivers, Curiosities, and Noblemens Seats; with a particular Survey of the County, in a perspective Map quite New, and according to Act of Parliament. The Whole design'd for Youth to write after, as well as to entertain the Gentlemen and Ladies of the County, and to furnish their Memories with a necesary Knowledge of their respective Places of Abode, in a Method intirely new. The Whole adorned with Picture-Work. As also, Alphabets, Single-Line Copies, Poems on various Subjects, Select Proverbs and Sentences, and a great Variety of Command of Hand by the best Artists, in all the Hands now made Use of in Great Britain, particularly of those most applicable to Business: All made more intelligible, useful and universal: Than any Thing of the like Kind hitherto extant. To which is added, an essay towards a further improvement of a hand for business; with some useful Reflections on the present Method of Penmanship, viz. of the Pen, to make a Pen, to hold a Pen, to sit to write; of the several Hands, of Round Hand, of Italian, of the Ingrossing, of German Text; of the other Hands, of Striking or Command of Hand, Flourishing Figures, &c. which the Author hath made from his own Experience and Conversation with the best Masters. The Whole contrived for the Use of both Sexes: And it is presumed, will sufficiently answer the Method recommended. Written, and engraved on copper plates, by George Bickham.
Bickham, George, -1758.Date: [1750?]- Books
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Penmanship illustrated in a newwork containing a great variety of excellent copies ... Written by Messrs. Champion, Bland, & other eminent masters, and engrav'd by Jno. Howard on 40 copper plates.
Date: 1794- Books
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Practical and ornamental penmanship A new copy book, by Richard Clark, writing mast: to the Royal Academy, at Portsmouth.
Clark, Richard, writing master.Date: 1758- Books
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The beauties of penmanship Illustrated in a variety of examples, designed to promote emulation in this most valuable art, by R. Langford. ...
Langford, Richard, -1814.Date: 1797- Books
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Round-Text, A new Copy-Book By George Bickham At Brentford-End, Middlesex. With whom youth may Board, and Learn Writing, &c. Likewise Drawing, & Engraving all sorts of Works on Copper Plates.
Bickham, George, -1758.Date: [1712?]- Books
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General rules to be observ'd in writing the round-hands. Written by S. Browne, Norwich. Engrav'd by John Gray, London.
Browne, S., writing master.Date: 1778- Books
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The penman's diversion a new copy-book; Containing the usual hands of Great Britain After the most Free and Natural Manner for Business; Adorn'd with variety of loose and easy figures & Flourishes, By Command of Hand Invented and Performed by John Clark W. M. At the Hand and Pen in Woodstreet, London. Where Youth may Board. Geo: Bickham sculpsit.
Clark, John, 1688-1736.Date: [1710?]- Books
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The art of writing. Containing I. Rules for writing all the hands now in use ... II. An explanation of the different hands ... By Mr. Ambrose Serle. To which is prefixed, a new mathemamical [sic] projection ... by Mr. Peter Hudson.
Serle, Ambrose, Author of 'A treatise on the art of writing'.Date: 1776- Books
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A new copy book of round hand, for the use of schools as well as for such as have not the advantage of a master by John Langton writing master in Stamford in the County of Lincoln where youth may be taught arithmetick and all the hands
Langton, John, active 1700-1727.Date: 1723?]- Books
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The penman's employment a new copy book; containing choice variety of examples in all the hand of England, ... By Joseph Champion, ... J. Howard sculpsit.
Champion, Joseph, 1709-approximately 1765.Date: 1762- Books
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The practical pen-man a new copy book containing the usual hands of England by T: Ollyffe.
Ollyffe, Thomas, -approximately 1725.Date: [1713?]- Books
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Crew's round, running and text hands.
Crew, Nathaniel, teacher of writing, drawing and the mathematics.Date: [1785]- Books
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The penman's guide by N. Crew.
Crew, Nathaniel, teacher of writing, drawing and the mathematics.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The beauties of penmanship Illustrated in a variety of examples, designed to promote emulation in this most valuable art. By Richard Langford, ...
Langford, Richard, -1814.Date: 1785- Books
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Penmanship exemplified in all the variety of hands used in Great Britain: being a complete collection of Alphabetical Copies, In the Round Text; The Modern Round Hand for Business; The Running Hand for Correspondence; The Italian Hand for the Use of the Ladies; The Secretary Hand for Ingrossing: With the Addition of other Examples in each of the aforesaid Hands: And in the German Text, and in the Court Hand. By Joseph Champion and George Bickham.
Champion, Joseph, 1709-approximately 1765.Date: [1750?]- Books
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An essay in writing exemplified in the several hands and forms of business; useful for those design'd for compling houses, trade and the publick offices. By John Bland, writing master to the Academy in Little Tower Street, London. Bickham Sculpsit.
Bland, John, 1702-1750.Date: [1740]- Books
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Alphabets in all the hands with great variety of capital & small letters done for the use of the writing school of Christ-Hospital London by George Shelley writing Mr G. Bickham sculpsit.
Shelley, George, approximately 1666-approximately 1736.Date: [1710?]- Books
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The art of writing. Containing, I. Rules for writing all the hands now in use with Propriety and Elegance. II. An explanation of the different hands, with their Peculiarities and Directions, treating particularly of I. Characters and Proportion. 2. Round and Italian Hands. 3. Old English Text and German Text. 4. Square Text, Engrossing and Court Hand. 5. Roman, Greek and Hebrew Characters. 6. Floures and Abbreviations. 7. Command of Hand, or Striking. 8. English and Latin Copies. By Mr. Ambrose Serle. To which is prefixed, a new mathematical projection on Copper-Plate, shewing plainly by Inspection exact Rules for the true forming every Letter, with their Proportion and Dependence on each other; with a large Explanation of every Part; by Mr. Peter Hudson.
Serle, Ambrose, Author of 'A treatise on the art of writing'.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The youngman's companion, a new copy book containing examples of ye usual hands now practised in England, ... By William Elder.
Elder, William, active 1680-1700.Date: [1710?]