CARSTAIRS, JOSEPH.
Lectures on the Art of Writing, Comprehending a Variety of Observations on the Impediments which Retard the Progress of the Learner; Including a brief History of the Art; and also, of the Materials that Have Been in Use from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Excellent Receipts for Manufacturing Inks of Various Colours; and likewise Methods of Extracting Ink from Paper after it has been Written upon. To which is added, Several Methods of Acquiring Improvement in Business Hand Writing, by a Peculiar Movement of the Pen, Containing a Curious Classification of the Letters of the Alphabet, and Combining the Excellence and Uniform Neatness of English Manuscript. Interspersed with a Great Number of Plates and Examples: With Full and Copious Instructions how to Perform the Same. Second Edition. Dedicated (by Permission) to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. By J. Carstairs, Author of Tachygraphy, or the Flying Pen -Abbreviated Arithmetic, &c. &c.
London, printed by William Molineux, 1814. 8vo. (8),+ 144 pp.+18 engr. plates, of which 7 folding. Some foxing. Pp. 54-56 faultily paginated 48-50. Hole, with slight loss of text pp. 57-58. Small hole in lower margin p. 73. Stain in margin pp. 79-81, minor inkstains p. 87, tear in margin p. 97. Some offsetting from a few of the plates. Somewhat worn contemporary full calf, spine gilt with green label, sprinkled edges. Owner's stamp of Theod. Faulwasser on front fly leaf.
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