The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight : 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 /

The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight : 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 /

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Author / Creator:Billingsley, Martin, 1591-
Imprint:[London : W. Jones?] solde by G. Humble, [between 1620-1630?]
Description:1 online resource ([27] p., [26] leaves of plates) : ill.
Language:English
Subject:
Copybooks -- Early works to 1800.
Penmanship -- Early works to 1800.
Copybooks.
Penmanship.
Early works.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11653949
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Varying Form of Title:Secretaries delight
Notes:Contains engraved t.p. and letter of dedication.
Some leaves of plates unnumbered.
Imperfect: cropped, stained, with loss of text and probably loss of plate numbers.
Signatures: B-D4.
Reproduction of the original in: Bodleian Library.
STC (2nd ed.) 3062.8

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