The new a-la-mode secretarie: or, Practical pen-man, a new copy-book. Wherein the bastard Italians, commonly called the new-a-la-mode, round hands, mixt running hands, and mixt secretary's, are so mod[el'd] and composed, as to dispatch business with facility and neatness. Written with much variety, and performed according to the nature, freedom, and tendency of the pen. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ayres, John, fl. 1680-1700
Other Authors: Sturt, John, 1658-1730 (engr.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] Sold by Hen. Hatley ... Sam. Crouch ... and Ben. Alsop ..., [1682]
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Date of publication from Wing (2nd edition).
First published (1680) under title: A la mode secretarie or Practical pen-man.
Added title-page, engraved, has title "The Ala mode secretarie or Practical pen-man".
Plates engraved by John Sturt.
Cf. Heal, Ambrose. The English writing-masters and their copy-books, 1570-1800. London, 1931, pages 150, numbers 1.
Imperfect: cropped, with loss of print from t.p.
Reproduction of original in: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([6] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations.