L'art d'ecrire
By: par Alais
Publisher: Chez Jean Mariette, ruë Saint Jacques, aux Colonnes d'Hercules
Published: 1698
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Moyen d'exceler en cet art sans maistre
Notes: The 24 leaves are all engraved, and consist of an added title-page and 23 writing samples.

Engraved title-page reads: L'art d'écrire ou le moyen d'exceler en cet art sans maistre. Par Allais de Beaulieu. Par tout le roy[au]me de France. Se vend a Paris, Chez l'autheur.

Signatures (letterpress): A⁴ B².

Engraved by Louis Senault after designs by Alais.

Woodcut vignette of a vase of flowers on letterpress t.p.

First published: Paris, 1680. In this edition, the letterpress text has been reset.

Librairie Paul Jammes. Belles écritures, 34.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 92.