The pens transcendency: or, Fair writings store-house. Furnished with examples of all the curious hands practised in England, and the nations adjacent. Adorned with variety of admirable knots and flourishes; invented for the recreation of practitioners. Also so many and plain directions for all hands, and such rare discoveries of the secrets of art, as will enable all that are ingenious to write any hand completely without a teacher. [With the] explication of a geometrical scheme, which comprehends the whole body and mystery of fair-writing. Being an invention highly necessary for all that aim at pen-perfection. Likewise a choice receipt for ink, and to write with gold. [Wholly invented, wri]tten and engraven by Edward Cocker. [The last impres]sion much [in]larged and amended in many things.
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- The pens transcendency: or, Fair writings store-house. Furnished with examples of all the curious hands practised in England, and the nations adjacent. Adorned with variety of admirable knots and flourishes; invented for the recreation of practitioners. Also so many and plain directions for all hands, and such rare discoveries of the secrets of art, as will enable all that are ingenious to write any hand completely without a teacher. [With the] explication of a geometrical scheme, which comprehends the whole body and mystery of fair-writing. Being an invention highly necessary for all that aim at pen-perfection. Likewise a choice receipt for ink, and to write with gold. [Wholly invented, wri]tten and engraven by Edward Cocker. [The last impres]sion much [in]larged and amended in many things.
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[London: are to be sold with the Pens triumph, Pens celerity,] and other of the author's works, Robert Wal[ton, lawful printer at the Dial in Little Britain over against the Globe, 1668.]
- Publication year
- 1668-1668
- ESTC No.
- R1343
- Grub Street ID
- 61532
- Description
- [2], 20 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. (port.) ; obl. 2⁰
- Note
- Dimensions: 18 x 25 cm.
Signatures: A-F?.
Frontis. = port. = ill.
Portrait titled and signed: Edward Cocker. The author's face is only here design'd you in the booke his hands may also finde, and view the rare productions of his minde. E. M.
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- Catalogued from original at the British Library; title and imprint information partly from Heal, The English writing-masters and their copy-books 1570-1800