A delightful recreation for the industrious
Subtitle: a copy book of plain and practical writing : after the most modish manner yet extant with variety of ornam. : by command of hand
By: invented & performed by William Brooks, W.M. ; Georgius Bickham Londini sculp
Publisher: Sold by Tho. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Notes: Engraved throughout; consists of frontispiece portrait, title-page, and nineteen unnumbered samples.

John Bowles first took the Black Horse address in 1740 and went into partnership with his son Carington in 1754.

These are later states of the plates in which the plate numbers have been burnished out.

The Newberry has a copy of this title which should be dated after 1764 because of its imprint; however, it also contains some plates which are numbered, putting into question the dating of the composition of this volume.

One plate is dated 1717.

Portrait after a painting by P. Tomlinson.

Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie, 274.

Heal, A. English writing-masters, p. 177.

Massey, W. Origin and progress of letters, Pt. II, p. 30-31.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 203.