The accomplisht clerk, or, Accurate pen-man
Subtitle: a new copy book, containing variety of vsefull examples shewing ye most natural and clerk like way of writing all the vsual hands of England
By: by John Ayres, Master of ye writing-school near St. Pauls Free School in London
Contributors: Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver
Publisher: Sould by ye author at ye Hand and Pen in Paul's Church Yard
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Accurate penman; Accomplished clerk
Notes: Engraved throughout; consisting of frontispiece, title-page, dedication leaf, and twenty-five unnumbered plates.

Several plates carry dates of 1682 and 1683; dedication to Thomas Topham dated 29 May 1683.

Title-page signed by the engraver John Sturt.

Portrait engraved by Robert White.

Bonacini, C.  Arte scrittorie, 120

Heal, A.  English writing-masters, p. 150

Massey, W. Origin and progress of letters, Pt. II, pp. 13-14

Becker, D.P.  Practice of letters, 117