The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight
Subtitle: wherein aswell the abuses wch [sic] are offered vnto ye worthines of ye pen by unworthie pen men are trulie discovered, and ye dignity of ye art it self by ye antiquitie, excellencie & diversitie thereof is breifly demonstrated : together with an insertion of sondrie peeces, or examples, of all ye vsuall hands of England : as also an addition of certaine methodicall observations for writing, making of the pen, holding the pen, &c.
By: written by Martin Billingsley ... ; the Greeke & Hebrewe with other peeces never yet extant are hereunto by the authour exactlie added.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1872:5.
Publisher: Are to be solde by Io. Sudbury & George Humble in Popeshead alley
Published: 1620
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Penmanship -- Copybooks
Other titles: Secretaries delight.
Notes: Contains engraved t.p. and letter of dedication.

Imperfect: some leaves of plates unnumbered; engraved port., plate 26, some others? lacking.

Signature B² recto line 3 ends ànd'; line 14 has C̀arpers' with swash C̀'.

Signatures: B-D⁴.

Reproduction of original in: University of Illinois (Urbana- Champaign Campus). Library.

STC (2nd ed.) 3062.6.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1872:5)

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