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Penmanship, English - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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    Alderson's rudiments of penmanship, engraved by Ashby. Four copy-books, ..

    Alderson, James, fl. 1793-1798. | Date: 1797-98
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    The standard rules of the round and round-text hands Mathematically demonstrating how better alphabets of those hands may be performed than have ever yet been published in Great-Britain. Absolutely necessary to be known, by all writing-masters and others who would gain a pecfect knowledge of those hands; and very useful for engravers, painters, masons, &c. who may have occasion to draw large inscriptions. Invented by Charles Snell, writing-master and accomptant, at the Free Writing-School in Foster-Lane. With whom young genttlemen many board.

    Snell, Charles, 1667-1733. | Date: 1715

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