William Richards

The Compleat Penman; or Young Clerk's Companion; Exemplified in All the Various Hands, and Forms of Business, ... by William Richards, ...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included.
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British Library

T120516

The titlepage is engraved. A reissue, with a four-page letterpress 'Introduction to the art of penmanship', of most of the plates of the edition sold by the author, Wilcox and Cole - In: 'The universal library of trade and commerce', London, printed for

London : printed for J Robinson, [1747]. [2],4p.,plates ; 4°