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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
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Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
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Langton, John, active 1700–1727
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Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
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Schreuer, J
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Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
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Smith, Henry D
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Books
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Articles & Chapters
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19th century
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18th century
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copy books (penmanship)
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writing book
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engraving
2
drawing book
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lithograph
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maxim
1
printed wrappers (binding)
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wood engraving
1
Subject Terms
Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
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Copybooks.
2
Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
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Penmanship.
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Thomas, Julia -- Autograph.
2
Alphabets.
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Autographs -- Specimens.
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Bickham, G. -- Publisher.
1
Brook, Sarah Watson -- Autograph, 1774
1
Conduct of life.
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Copybooks -- Germany.
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Copybooks -- Specimens.
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Drawing -- Study and teaching.
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Drawing books -- Specimens.
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Engraving -- Specimens -- 1731.
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Engraving -- Specimens.
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George, Prince of Cambridge -- Bookplate.
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George, Prince of Cambridge -- Stamp.
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Great Britain.
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Historiated initials.
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Glasgow
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Great Britain
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Bombay
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Dublin
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Edinburgh
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England
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Germany
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Ireland
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London
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Exhibition History
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
2
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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English
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German
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent
1731
2
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Vere Foster's Copy books
[approximately 1897?]
3
Smith, Henry D
Ladies' running hand
[between 1841 and 1851]
4
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
5
Laurie's standard copy books
[1877]
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
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Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
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American standard writing spellers
1881
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Schreuer, J
Blaetter um die Englische text Hand zu erlernen und mit einer kurzen Anleitung zum Selbstunterricht herausgegeben
[183-?]
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Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Vere Foster's new copy-books
[approximately 1890]
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Langton, John, active 1700–1727
A new copy-book of the small Italian hand
[1727?]