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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
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Campion, G
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Jones, William, writing master
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Langton, John, active 1700–1727
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Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
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Milns, William, 1761–1801
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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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Books
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19th century
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18th century
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writing book
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copy books (penmanship)
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alphabet book
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alphabets (primers)
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engraving
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maxim
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penmanship specimen book
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Subject Terms
Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
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Calligraphy -- Great Britain.
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Copybooks -- Specimens.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
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Alphabet -- Early works to 1800.
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Alphabets -- Early works to 1800.
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Autographs -- Specimens.
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Bickham, G. -- Publisher.
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Brook, Sarah Watson -- Autograph, 1774
1
Business -- Early works to 1800.
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Calligraphers -- Early works to 1800.
1
Calligraphers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Calligraphy -- Early works to 1800.
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Calligraphy.
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Commercial correspondence.
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Conduct of life.
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Copybooks -- Germany.
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Copybooks.
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Crowther, G.H. -- Publisher.
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19th century
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Great Britain
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England
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London
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Frodsham
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Germany
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Associated People
Jones, William
1
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
Milns, William, 1761–1801
The penman's repository
[1787]
3
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
4
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
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Jones, William, writing master
Poikilographia, or, Various specimens of ornamental penmanship
[1830?]
6
Campion, G
Introduction to ornamental writing
[1830?]
7
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
The origin and progress of letters
1763
8
The ornamental penman and arithmetical title writer
1825
9
American standard writing spellers
1881
10
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The universal penman;
1743
11
Schreuer, J
Blaetter um die Englische text Hand zu erlernen und mit einer kurzen Anleitung zum Selbstunterricht herausgegeben
[183-?]
12
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
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Langton, John, active 1700–1727
A new copy-book of the small Italian hand
[1727?]