Writing improv'd, or, Penmanship made easy in it's useful and ornamental parts
Subtitle: with various examples of all the hands now practis'd in Great Britain
By: by John Clark writing-master and accomptant ; Bickham sculpsit
Publisher: Printed and sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate London ; sold by the author at his house in Warwick Lane; remov'd to Peterborough-Court in Fleet-Street
Published: 1730
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Penmanship made easy
Notes: The title-page has the additional statement that Clark had "remov'd to Peterborough-Court in Fleet-Street," which he did not do until 1727. Overton and Hoole's partnership, which began ca. 1716, concluded in the early 1730s.

Preface dated May 19, 1714.

The preface and introduction are letterpress.

Engraved title-page numbered plate 1.

Advertisement for Books printed for and sold by Henry Overton and J. Hoole, foot of p. 6.

Frontispiece portrait by Bickham after an original by T. Foster.

Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie, 367

Heal, A. English writing-masters, p. 169

Massey, W. Origin and progress of letters, Pt. II, p. 45-50

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 181.