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, print and mapseller, at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Notes: Engraved throughout; frontispiece portrait and title-page included in foliation (leaves 'a' and 'b' respectively).

The only dated title which has John Bowles residing at this address was printed in 1728 (all of his other imprints have him located either at Stocks Market or Cornhill).

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.

This state does not contain the letterpress leaves found in many other states.

Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie, 1290.

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