The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight : wherein aswell the abuses wch 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. / written by Martin Billingsley ... ; the Greeke & Hebrewe with other peeces never yet extant are hereunto by the authour exactlie added.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Billingsley, Martin, 1591-

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1872:5.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copybooks.

Physical Description:

27 unnumbered pages, 28 leaves of plates : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Secretaries delight.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Are to be solde by Io. Sudbury & George Humble in Popeshead alley, [between 1620-1630?]

Notes:

Contains engraved t.p. and letter of dedication.

Imperfect: some leaves of plates unnumbered; engraved port., plate 26, some others? lacking.

Signature B2 recto line 3 ends ànd'; line 14 has C̀arpers' with swash C̀'.

Signatures: B-D4

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1872:5) s1985 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 3062.6

OCLC:

33143278