Rand's writing series.

Format:

Book

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penmanship.

Rand's introduction to penmanship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[B.H. Rand]

Notes:

Prospectus for Rand's introduction to penmanship, an eight-part series. Includes recommendations, the latest of which is dated January 25, 1855.

Title from metal-engraved cover.

"Rand's introduction to penmanship, in six parts, edition of 1853, with all copies set, from the elements of writing through to a finished hand ... Two sets of these books will be sent per mail, post-paid, to any person enclosing $1.00 to B.H. Rand ... Prices. Ninety cents per dozen or $70 per thousand, for the first six numbers, or the appendix in five numbers. Seventy-five cents per dozen, or $50 per thousand, for nos. 7,8 and 9."--p. [5].

"[Rand's introduction to penmanship] may be had, also, of A.S. Barnes & Co., S. Raynor, Spalding & Shepard, New York; A.M. Wilder, Brooklyn; Cushing & Brother, Armstrong & Berry, Baltimore; R. Farnham, Washington; Moore, Anderson & Co., Cincinnati; E.K. Woodward, St. Louis; E.H. Pease & Co., Albany, N.Y.; Durrie & Peck, Geo. B. Basset, New Haven, Conn.; Sanford & Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; R.D. Jones, Rochester, N.Y.; J.M.W. Jones, Troy, N.Y.; Ch. Scott, Trenton, N.J.; B. Bannan, Pottsville; E.K. Lundy, Mrs. Thomas, Georgetown, D.C.; and booksellers generally."--p. [5].

Last page blank.

"Rand's apparatus for holding the pen."--p. [1].

"Opinions of the press."--p. [10-11].

Title from cover.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

1162175236