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Dean's universal penman, or A complete system of examples for writing with accuracy and freedom : containing six sets of copies in large text words, round text, round hand, running hand and alphabets in all the useful and ornamental hands; with specimens of modern & approved forms used in transacting business. / By Henry Dean, professor of penmanship, author of the Analytical guide to the art of penmanship, The printer's academical assistant &c.

Author/creator Dean, Henry, 1788-1849
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[New York] : Published & sold by Geo. F. Hopkins, New York, [1810?]
Description4 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorPayne, Eloisa R. (Eloisa Richards), 1787- engraver.
Other author/creatorWightman, Thomas, engraver.
Other author/creatorHooker, William, engraver.
Other author/creatorMaverick, Peter, 1780-1831 engraver.
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 14839. ^A575643
General noteEngraved title page; signed by Eloisa R. Payne and Thomas Wightman. Plates engraved by William Hooker, Peter Maverick and Thomas Wightman.
General noteSeveral plates dated 1808. Copyright statement affixed to verso of title page dated "the twenty-seventh day of June, in the thirty-fourth year of the independence of the United States [i.e., 1810] ..."
General note"The art of penmanship. Published by John Thompson, bookseller, no. 126, Pearl-Street, New-York. J. Seymour, printer."--p. [1]-2.
General note"The art of printing ..."--p. [3]-4.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 14839
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 14839).
Genre/formWriting books.
Other titleUniversal penman.

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