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Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us'd, both in printing and penmanship : each illustrated by emblematic devices and moral copies : calculated for the user of schools and curiously engraved by the best hands ...

Chinnery, William, 1708-1791, Hutchinson, Thomas, Hulett, James, d. 1771, Tringham, William, Bellamy, Thomas · 1750 · London : Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy ... · 48 pictures

A copperplate writing manual by the London writing-master William Chinnery, engraved by James Hulett and William Tringham and published in 1750 for schoolroom use, giving the alphabet in every printed and written hand alongside emblematic devices and moral copies. The plates pair engraved display capitals with command-of-hand flourishes, offering designers ornamental titling words, looping headpiece rules and single-stroke swan-neck strokes.

Penmanship · Calligraphy

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