The pen's triumph
Subtitle: being a copy-book containing variety of examples of all hands practised in this nation according to the present mode ... most of the copies consisting of two lines only, and those containing the whole alphabet ... : with a discovery of the secrets and intricacies of this art ... also a choice receipt for ink
By: invented, written and engraven by Edward Cocker
Publisher: Are to be sold with other of the authors works, by John Dowse ...
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Art's glory.; Plvmae triumphans.; Plumae triumphans.
Notes: Harvard's volume is made up of parts of Cocker's Pen's triumph and Art's glory. The sequence is as follows: title-page and two leaves of a dedicatory poem by S.H. from Pen's triumph; seven leaves of instruction from Art's glory; nine leaves of instruction from Pen's triumph (18 p.); [16] leaves of plates from Art's glory; [27] leaves of plates from Pen's triumph, including its engraved t.p., Plvmae triumphans, and dedication.

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Massey, W. Origin and progress of letters, Pt. II, p. 53-55.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 112.