Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent
Subtitle: a new copy-book, wherein are revived, and comprized, all the most useful, and ornamental pieces, published by the best masters in Europe : to which are added, some curious modern pieces never before extant
By: Collected, & engraved by Geo. Bickham ; 1731
Publisher: Printed and sold by H. Overton & I. Hoole at ye White Horse without Newgate
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Notes: Engraved t.-p. and dedicatory leaf included in the sequential numbering of engraved leaves; the frontispiece is not.

In this edition, the second half of the imprint found on the first edition has been etched out and plate 32 is entitled "A sett of single line copys" and has the imprint "Sold by H. Overton without Newgate 1737" at the foot.

Houghton copy has pasted onto back wrapper bookseller's advertisements with caption title "Books printed for, and sold by, Henry Overton" and are dated 1740.

Two leaves of letterpress consist of a preface with the caption title: The engraver to the reader.

The frontispiece is by George Bickham, Junior, who may have been responsible for some of the other plates as well.