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102
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Scholars, guild masters & pioneers
1814–1899
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📖Spencerian key to practical penmanship
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📖Writing & illuminating, & lettering
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📖Graphology : how to read character from handwriting, with full explanation of the science, and many examples fully analyzed
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📖Letters & lettering; a treatise with 200 examples
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📖The penman's hand-book : for penmen and students, embracing a history of writing ... many complete alphabets ... ; Also, Chapters on teaching penmanship, business letter writing, off-hand flourishing ... etc.
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📖The art of lettering and sign painter’s manual : a complete and practical illustration of the art of sign writing /
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📖Art alphabets and lettering;
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📖Lettering for schools and colleges, for the office and workshop ...
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📖Lettering
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📖The Zanerian manual of alphabets and engrossing; an instructor in round hand, lettering, engrossing, designing, pen and brush art, etc
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📖Gaskell's Compendium of Forms: Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to english composition
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📖Lettering for commercial purposes
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📖The theory and practice of handwriting; a practical manual for the guidance of school boards, teachers, and students of the art, with diagrams and illustrations
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📖Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth centuries : a series of typical examples from English and foreign writing books
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📖The art of show card writing; a modern treatise covering all branches of the art ... with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations and thirty-two lettering plates, comprising all the standard ancient and modern styles
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📖Chapter on lettering;
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📖Hand lettering
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📖Spencerian key to practical penmanship. Prepared for the "Spencerian authors",
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📖A textbook on lettering and sign painting
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📖Art Alphabets n Lettering Bergling
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📖The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers
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📖Elements of lettering and sign painting;
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📖A text-book of free-hand lettering
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📖Graphology; how to read character from handwriting; studies in character reading, a text-book of graphology for experts, students and laymen
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📖The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship
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📖Elements of lettering
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📖Practical compendium of commercial pen lettering & designs
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📖Modern show card lettering, designs, etc.
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📖Manuscript Writing and Lettering: A Handbook for Schools & Colleges
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📖Graphology and the psychology of handwriting
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📖Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible
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📖Ye solace of pilgrimes, a description of Rome, circa A.D. 1450, with a frontispiece illusrating the author's handwriting
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📖Becker's ornamental penmanship. A series of analytical and finished alphabets
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📖Standard lettering
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📖Lettering in ornament, an inquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible
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📖Practical penmanship,
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📖f Alphabets and Lettering with Esterbrook Drawlet Pens
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📖Davids' practical letterer; instructions in commercial lettering with brush or pen
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📖Radford's architectural drawing; complete guide to work of architect's office, drawing to scale--tracing--detailing--lettering--rendering--designing-- classic orders of architecture; a complete and thorough course
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📖How to make effective show-cards, off hand card writing and pen lettering
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📖Alphabets And Lettering
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📖Real pen work : self-instructor in penmanship
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📖A text-book on plain lettering
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📖Straight line alphabet for lettering in the grades
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📖Lessons in ornamental penmanship,
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📖The art of lettering and sign painter's manual : a complete and practical illustration of the art of sign writing
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📖Fleming's self-instructor in business & ornamental penmanship
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📖Modern show card lettering, designs and advertising phases;
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📖The philosophy of handwriting
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📖Modern lettering, artistic and practical; a thorough and practical text-book for use in schools and colleges and for the self-instruction of architects, artists, decorators and sign writers..
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📖The teaching of penmanship
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📖Handwriting and expression
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📖Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students;
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📖Laird & Lee's modern penmanship and its practical application,
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📖Public school penmanship; a handbook for teachers
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📖Farrian complete penmanship,
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📖Lettering of working drawings
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📖Free-hand lettering. Being a treatise on plain lettering from the practical standpoint for use in engineering schools and colleges
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📖The handwriting of God in Egypt, Sinai, and the Holy Land : the records of a journey from the great valley of the West to the sacred places of the East
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📖A system of easy lettering
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📖The art of lettering
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📖Penmanship Of The Xvi, Xvii, &Amp; Xviiith Centuries
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📖Ancient handwriting; an introductory manual for intending students of palaeography and diplomatic
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📖Bixler's physical training in penmanship,
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📖Reinhardt's correspondence course; lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students
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📖Oriental penmanship; specimens of Persian handwriting, illustrated with facsimilies from originals in the South Kensington museum
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📖A system of easy lettering. With a supplement consisting of eight alphabets
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📖Herhold's compendium of modern penmanship,
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📖How to read character in handwriting : a guide for the beginner and student of graphology
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📖A scale for measuring the quality of handwriting of school children
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📖The theory and practice of lettering, designed for the use of engineers and draftsmen generally, but especially for the use of students in engineering
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📖Applied graphology : a textbook on character analysis from handwriting
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📖Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students; a practical system of freehand lettering for working drawings
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📖Ames' Compendium Of Practical And Ornamental Penmanship
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📖Real pen work [microform] : self-instructor in penmanship
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📖Writing And Illuminating, And Lettering
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📖Handwriting
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📖The language of handwriting : a textbook of graphology
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📖The Hausam system of plain penmanship, complete,
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📖Free-hand lettering : being a treatise on plain lettering from the pracitical standpoint for use in engineering schools and colleges
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📖A New Handwriting for Teachers
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📖The Payson, Dunton, and scribner manual of penmanship
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📖The handwriting movement; a study of the motor factors of excellence in penmanship; an investigation carried on with the aid of a subsidy
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📖Manual of the lettering scale
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📖Shakespeare's handwriting : a study
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📖Elements of lettering ... A treatise on the history, classification, and practical application of the various styles of letters of the alphabet
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📖The teaching of handwriting
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📖Notes on technical sketching and free hand lettering for engineering students
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📖Documents and their scientific examination : with especial reference to the chemistry involved in cases of suspected forgery, investigation of disputed documents, handwriting, etc.
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📖Free-hand lettering. Being a treatise on plain lettering from the practical standpoint for use in engineering schools and colleges. By Victor T. Wilson..
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📖The teachers' and students' library : a compendium of knowledge necessary to teachers, students and the general reader, embracing reading, penmanship, arithmetic ...
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📖Bibliotics; or, The study of documents; determination of the individual character of handwriting and detection of fraud and forgery;
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📖Mechanical drawing: lettering, materials and methods
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📖An old Chinese garden : a three-fold masterpiece of poetry, calligraphy and painting
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📖Talks on graphology, the art of knowing character through handwriting
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📖The psychology and pedagogy of handwriting
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📖Webb's useful penmanship : being his last work of this kind : exhibiting a variety of excellent examples in text, round, & mercantile hands : adapted for the use of academies and schools
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📖Bibliotics; or, The study of documents; determination of the individual character of handwriting and detection of fraud and forgery. New methods of research
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📖Beatty's guide to elegant writing : for self-instruction : in the latest and most approved style of penmanship ..
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📖Penmanship
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📖Rasmussen business penmanship instructor;
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📖Ahn's German handwriting
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📖Detecting criminal handwriting (with especial reference to the Philippines)
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📖Penmanship: determining the achievement of elementary school graduates in handwriting ..
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📖Burns's "Chloris", a reminiscence. With facsimile of poem The song of death in the poet's handwriting
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📖Disputed handwriting; an exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day
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📖Review diagrams of U.S. history, civil government, geography, grammar, reading, arithmetic, physiology, and penmanship
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📖Architectural drawing and lettering ...
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📖Classification and identification of handwriting
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📖Zaner Lessons In Ornamental Penmanship
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📖The handwriting on the wall
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📖Linear drawing and lettering for beginners
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📖New York city penmanship scale
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📖A manual of the study of documents to establish the individual character of handwriting and to detect fraud and forgery, including several new methods of research
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📖An easy grammar of writing; or, penmanship analyzed : in two parts ... with observations and proper examples
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📖Penmanship made easy to both teacher and student,
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📖How to read character
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📖Elementary course syllabus; outlines of study in arthimetic, grammar, geography, physiology, U.S. history, letter writing, composition and penmanship
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📖Spencer Authors Theory Of Spencerian Penmanship ( 1874)
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📖Parsons' Hand Book of Business and Social Forms (Penmanship Section)
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📖The handwriting of the kings & queens of England
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📖Shakespeare's handwriting and other papers
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📖Shakespere's handwriting
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📖A scale for measuring the quality of handwriting of adults
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📖Mechanical drawing; a practical manual of self-instruction in the art of drafting, lettering, and reproducing plans and working drawings, with abundant exercises and plates
ZipMyBook Curated Digital Library
Calligraphy and Penmanship
Explore a carefully assembled historical library of 125 books devoted to calligraphy and penmanship. The selection prioritises useful, readable editions and substantial works.
Collection highlights
- Spencerian key to practical penmanship
- Spencerian key to practical penmanship. Prepared for the "Spencerian authors",
- The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship
- Becker's ornamental penmanship. A series of analytical and finished alphabets
- Practical penmanship,
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- Spencerian key to practical penmanship
- Writing & illuminating, & lettering
- Graphology : how to read character from handwriting, with full explanation of the science, and many examples fully analyzed
- Letters & lettering; a treatise with 200 examples
- The penman's hand-book : for penmen and students, embracing a history of writing ... many complete alphabets ... ; Also, Chapters on teaching penmanship, business letter writing, off-hand flourishing ... etc.
- The art of lettering and sign painter’s manual : a complete and practical illustration of the art of sign writing / by A. P. Boyce
- Art alphabets and lettering;
- Lettering for schools and colleges, for the office and workshop ...
- Lettering
- The Zanerian manual of alphabets and engrossing; an instructor in round hand, lettering, engrossing, designing, pen and brush art, etc
- Gaskell's Compendium of Forms: Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to english composition
- Lettering for commercial purposes
- The theory and practice of handwriting; a practical manual for the guidance of school boards, teachers, and students of the art, with diagrams and illustrations
- Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth centuries : a series of typical examples from English and foreign writing books
- The art of show card writing; a modern treatise covering all branches of the art ... with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations and thirty-two lettering plates, comprising all the standard ancient and modern styles
- Chapter on lettering;
- Hand lettering
- Spencerian key to practical penmanship. Prepared for the "Spencerian authors",
- A textbook on lettering and sign painting
- Art Alphabets n Lettering Bergling
- The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers
- Elements of lettering and sign painting;
- A text-book of free-hand lettering
- Graphology; how to read character from handwriting; studies in character reading, a text-book of graphology for experts, students and laymen
- The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship
- Elements of lettering
- Practical compendium of commercial pen lettering & designs
- Modern show card lettering, designs, etc.
- Manuscript Writing and Lettering: A Handbook for Schools & Colleges
- Graphology and the psychology of handwriting
- Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible
- Ye solace of pilgrimes, a description of Rome, circa A.D. 1450, with a frontispiece illusrating the author's handwriting
- Becker's ornamental penmanship. A series of analytical and finished alphabets
- Standard lettering
- Lettering in ornament, an inquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible
- Practical penmanship,
- f Alphabets and Lettering with Esterbrook Drawlet Pens
- Davids' practical letterer; instructions in commercial lettering with brush or pen
- Radford's architectural drawing; complete guide to work of architect's office, drawing to scale--tracing--detailing--lettering--rendering--designing-- classic orders of architecture; a complete and thorough course
- How to make effective show-cards, off hand card writing and pen lettering by a new and simple method with fifty-six original cuts;
- Alphabets And Lettering
- Real pen work : self-instructor in penmanship
- A text-book on plain lettering
- Straight line alphabet for lettering in the grades
- Lessons in ornamental penmanship,
- The art of lettering and sign painter's manual : a complete and practical illustration of the art of sign writing
- Fleming's self-instructor in business & ornamental penmanship
- Modern show card lettering, designs and advertising phases;
- The philosophy of handwriting
- Modern lettering, artistic and practical; a thorough and practical text-book for use in schools and colleges and for the self-instruction of architects, artists, decorators and sign writers..
- The teaching of penmanship
- Handwriting and expression
- Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students;
- Laird & Lee's modern penmanship and its practical application,
- Public school penmanship; a handbook for teachers
- Farrian complete penmanship,
- Lettering of working drawings
- Free-hand lettering. Being a treatise on plain lettering from the practical standpoint for use in engineering schools and colleges
- The handwriting of God in Egypt, Sinai, and the Holy Land : the records of a journey from the great valley of the West to the sacred places of the East
- A system of easy lettering
- The art of lettering
- Penmanship Of The Xvi, Xvii, &Amp; Xviiith Centuries
- Ancient handwriting; an introductory manual for intending students of palaeography and diplomatic
- Bixler's physical training in penmanship,
- Reinhardt's correspondence course; lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students
- Oriental penmanship; specimens of Persian handwriting, illustrated with facsimilies from originals in the South Kensington museum
- A system of easy lettering. With a supplement consisting of eight alphabets
- Herhold's compendium of modern penmanship,
- How to read character in handwriting : a guide for the beginner and student of graphology
- A scale for measuring the quality of handwriting of school children
- The theory and practice of lettering, designed for the use of engineers and draftsmen generally, but especially for the use of students in engineering
- Applied graphology : a textbook on character analysis from handwriting
- Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students; a practical system of freehand lettering for working drawings
- Ames' Compendium Of Practical And Ornamental Penmanship
- Real pen work [microform] : self-instructor in penmanship
- Writing And Illuminating, And Lettering
- Handwriting
- The language of handwriting : a textbook of graphology
- The Hausam system of plain penmanship, complete,
- Free-hand lettering : being a treatise on plain lettering from the pracitical standpoint for use in engineering schools and colleges
- A New Handwriting for Teachers
- The Payson, Dunton, and scribner manual of penmanship
- The handwriting movement; a study of the motor factors of excellence in penmanship; an investigation carried on with the aid of a subsidy by the General education board
- Manual of the lettering scale
- Shakespeare's handwriting : a study
- Elements of lettering ... A treatise on the history, classification, and practical application of the various styles of letters of the alphabet
- The teaching of handwriting
- Notes on technical sketching and free hand lettering for engineering students
- Documents and their scientific examination : with especial reference to the chemistry involved in cases of suspected forgery, investigation of disputed documents, handwriting, etc.
- Free-hand lettering. Being a treatise on plain lettering from the practical standpoint for use in engineering schools and colleges. By Victor T. Wilson..
- The teachers' and students' library : a compendium of knowledge necessary to teachers, students and the general reader, embracing reading, penmanship, arithmetic ...
- Bibliotics; or, The study of documents; determination of the individual character of handwriting and detection of fraud and forgery;
- Mechanical drawing: lettering, materials and methods
- An old Chinese garden : a three-fold masterpiece of poetry, calligraphy and painting
- Talks on graphology, the art of knowing character through handwriting
- The psychology and pedagogy of handwriting
- Webb's useful penmanship : being his last work of this kind : exhibiting a variety of excellent examples in text, round, & mercantile hands : adapted for the use of academies and schools
- Bibliotics; or, The study of documents; determination of the individual character of handwriting and detection of fraud and forgery. New methods of research
- Beatty's guide to elegant writing : for self-instruction : in the latest and most approved style of penmanship ..
- Penmanship by principle,
- Rasmussen business penmanship instructor;
- Ahn's German handwriting
- Detecting criminal handwriting (with especial reference to the Philippines)
- Penmanship: determining the achievement of elementary school graduates in handwriting ..
- Burns's "Chloris", a reminiscence. With facsimile of poem The song of death in the poet's handwriting
- Disputed handwriting; an exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day
- Review diagrams of U.S. history, civil government, geography, grammar, reading, arithmetic, physiology, and penmanship
- Architectural drawing and lettering ...
- Classification and identification of handwriting
- Zaner Lessons In Ornamental Penmanship – 1909 edition
- The handwriting on the wall
- Linear drawing and lettering for beginners
- New York city penmanship scale
- A manual of the study of documents to establish the individual character of handwriting and to detect fraud and forgery, including several new methods of research
- An easy grammar of writing; or, penmanship analyzed : in two parts ... with observations and proper examples
- Penmanship made easy to both teacher and student,
- How to read character by handwriting
- Elementary course syllabus; outlines of study in arthimetic, grammar, geography, physiology, U.S. history, letter writing, composition and penmanship
- Spencer Authors Theory Of Spencerian Penmanship ( 1874)
- Parsons' Hand Book of Business and Social Forms (Penmanship Section)
- The handwriting of the kings & queens of England
- Shakespeare's handwriting and other papers
- Shakespere's handwriting
- A scale for measuring the quality of handwriting of adults
- Mechanical drawing; a practical manual of self-instruction in the art of drafting, lettering, and reproducing plans and working drawings, with abundant exercises and plates
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