The writing schoolemaster, or, The anatomie of faire writing
Subtitle: wherein is exactlie expressed each severall character, together with other rules & documents, coincident to the art of faire & speedy writing
By: by John Davies of Heref
Edition: Sixt [sic] edition, enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for Michaell Sparke
Published: 1663
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Penmanship; Copybooks; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Anatomie of faire writing; Writing school-master, or, The anatomy of fair writing
Notes: Signatures (of letterpress): A-B⁴.

This is a copy issued subsequently to the printing of its various parts. Consists of a frontispiece, an engraved title-page, 8 letterpress leaves and 24 engraved samples (an ideal copy would probably consist of engraved samples 2-31). The engraved title-page was printed during Sparke's years as a publisher, 1630-1640. However, the plates, both numbered in the upper margins and lettered in the lower margins, are of a later date; the letters are engraved over earlier numbers which appear on copies with title imprint dates as late as 1648 and 1663.

Added engraved t.p. with portrait of Davies, dated 1631.

Plate 17(R) is signed: Fran. Ingheenram (?)

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

STC (2nd ed.) 6344.5

Heal, A. Engl. writing-masters, p. 133.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 111.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212