The Art of writing, reduced to a plain and easy system, on a plan entirely new
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17513
Publisher: by Goulding and Stow.
Published: 1809
Place of publication: Printed at Worcester [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Penmanship
Other titles: A candid appeal to the friends and patrons of the useful arts.
Notes: Appeal soliciting contributions to support the publication of the remaining six volumes of John Jenkins' The art of writing, reduced to a plain and easy system. ... In seven books. Book I, published at Boston in 1791, was the first American treatise on penmanship; no other volumes were published. Cf. Nash, R. Amer. penmanship 1800-1850 (Worcester, Mass., 1969), p. 4-5.

Caption title: A candid appeal to the friends and patrons of the useful arts.

"Signed by the Rev. Ebenezer Fitch, D.D. president of Williamstown College [and twenty-seven others], February 20, 1809."-- p. 12.

Shaw & Shoemaker 17513

Shaw & Shoemaker 16870

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