A nevv booke, containing all sortes of handes vsually written at this daie in Christendom : as the English and French secretarie, the Roman, Italian, French, Spanish, high and low Dutch, Court and Chancerie handes: with examples of each of them in their proper tongue and letter. Also an example of the true and iust proportion of the Roman capitals. Collected by the best approved writers in these languages, now first published.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beau-Chesne, Jehan de, attributed name.

E. B., active 1571.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640.

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Penmanship--Early works to 1800.

Penmanship.

Physical Description:

112 unnumbered pages : illustrations

Other Title:

New booke, containing all sortes of handes usually written at this daie in Christendom

New booke, containing all sortes of handes usually written at this daie in Christendom.

Rules made by E.B. for children to write by.

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : [By R. Field] by William Kearney, 1590.

Notes:

Printer's name from STC.

The woodcut specimens contain only a few from: Beau-Chesne, Jehan de. Le tresor d'escriture--STC.

Has later setting than STC 6446 of the "Rules made by E.B. for his children to learn to write by". The "Rules" here read: "Rules made by E.B. for children to write by". The first section of the "Rules" ends: "colour more dimme". The Bodleian Library has a single leaf fragment printed about this time, but with "coloure more dymme"--Cf. STC.

Last leaf blank.

Signatures: A B-N⁴.

Formerly STC 6447.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Photocopy of microfilm. (Early English books, 1475-1640)

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 3361.3.

Related Work:

E. B., active 1571. Rules made by E.B. for his children to learn to write by.

OCLC:

150662174