The compleat writing master
Subtitle: containing several useful and ornamental examples of penmanship in all the hands after the most new & approv'd manner
By: by Abraham Nicholas
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Bowles & Son ... at ye Black Horse in Cornhill.
Published: 1754
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Notes: Frontispiece portrait and title-page included in foliation (leaves 'a' and 'b' respectively).

John Bowles and his son, Carington, were in partnership between 1754 and 1764.

Leaf 'o' is dated 1722, resulting in the frequent misdating of many of the states of this title.

Plate 'hh' is an advertisement for Abraham Nicholas' brother James as a teacher of writing, arithmetick, and accounting.

Title-page signed: George Bickham sculp.

Various states of the letterpress portion of this title are known;in this one signature A is unsigned and in B the last page contains publisher's advertisements giving Bowles' address as the Black Horse (where he was located between ca. 1740 and 1754, and 1764 and 1779).

Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie, 1290.

Heal, A. English writing-masters, p. 176.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 202.