CALLIGRAPHY. - [William CHINNERY. Writing and Drawing, Made Easy, Amusing, And Instructive. Containing the Whole Alphabet in Characters now Us'd both in Printing and Penmanship; Each Illustrated by Emblematic Devices and Moral Emblems, Calculated for the Use of Schools and Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands. London: T. Bellamy, n.d. but circa 1750]. 4to (168 x 197mm.) 46 engraved plates illustrating the letters A-Z with an emblematic plate and an accompanying engraved plate of verse. (Lacking title, frontispiece, blanks, lacking the emblem for 'D' and the verse for 'Z', loss to upper margin of many leaves, soiling, some later hand-colouring.) Later cloth-backed limp calf (worn).
CALLIGRAPHY. - [William CHINNERY. Writing and Drawing, Made Easy, Amusing, And Instructive. Containing the Whole Alphabet in Characters now Us'd both in Printing and Penmanship; Each Illustrated by Emblematic Devices and Moral Emblems, Calculated for the Use of Schools and Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands. London: T. Bellamy, n.d. but circa 1750]. 4to (168 x 197mm.) 46 engraved plates illustrating the letters A-Z with an emblematic plate and an accompanying engraved plate of verse. (Lacking title, frontispiece, blanks, lacking the emblem for 'D' and the verse for 'Z', loss to upper margin of many leaves, soiling, some later hand-colouring.) Later cloth-backed limp calf (worn).
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