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“VIVRE LA PLUME” - REGENCY PENMANSHIP.

Name: “VIVRE LA PLUME” - REGENCY PENMANSHIP.
Author: [Wallis, Tho.[mas]. [Manuscript Specimen Of Penmanship].

Book Description

Single sheet, 47.5 x 33cm, tipped onto stiff card, copperplate script with vignette of a mans face at centre, title “Penmanship” within a swan outline at head and quill at foot. A nice survival of this example of Regency penmanship with an eight line poem beginning : “in ancient times when drawing first began, a lump of chalk might rudely sketch a swan, but now that art to more perfection brought....” A good copy (small dents & chips; occ.soiling & marking).

Author [Wallis, Tho.[mas]. [Manuscript Specimen Of Penmanship].

Date [Dated Mids[umme]r 1827].

Publisher [England]:

Price: £45.00

Offered by Alastor Rare Books

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