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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1763 Excerpt: ... The examples are all in the round-hand, which now principally obtains, and is happily practised in almost, all sorts of pen-business; so that a remark of our late celebrated engraver, Mr. George Bickham, in his BritiJJj Youth's InJlruBor, is very just and pertinent. ' Our forefathers, fays he, (properly "speaking, about fourscore years ago) prac'.' tised a small running secretary hand; and c it was as great a rarity to meet with a per"son, who had not been so taught, as it ct is now to meet with one that is. To talk "then of round-hand, and persuade the practc tice of it, was the fame thing, as it would "be now to introduce a new character, un"known to the generality of mankind. "But at length, the excellency and use"fulness of the round-hand prevailing with "many eminent penmen, to shew the deli"cacy of it, and its natural tendency to faci"litate and dispatch business, being consi"dered, it is universally received, and praccc tised by all degrees of men, in all employ"' ments the law only excepted. DANIEL, (richard) Anno Dom. 1663, this Richard Daniel, Gent, as he calls himself, published a copy-book, (having a royal patent per fixed for the sole print ing of it, for the space of fourteen years) intitled, A Compendium of the usual Hands of England, Netherlands, France, Spain, and Italy, with the Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldeany Syrian, Egyptian, Arabian, Greek, Saxon, Gothick, Croatian, Sclavonian, Mufcovian, Armenian, Roman, Florentine, Venetian, Saracen, Ethiopian, and Indian characters; with sundry figures of men, beasts, and birds, done (as he expresses it) a. la Volee. Edward Cocker engraved it, and it was printed for Austin Oldifworth, in Cannon-Jlreet. It consists of 67 oblong folio plates. I have seen one edition of it, where it is intitled, Scriptoria...
