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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
3
Campion, G
1
Farrar, Thomas Lister, 1836–
1
Holloway, George, fl. 1837–1839
1
Jones, William, writing master
1
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
1
Milns, William, 1761–1801
1
Needham, James
1
Norman, Charles
1
Pease family
1
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
1
Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797
1
Schreuer, J
1
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
1
Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
1
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1887
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
20
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Under Certain Circumstances
19
Free to Use
1
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19
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1
Classification
Books
12
Archives & Manuscripts
7
Articles & Chapters
1
Creator Gender
unknown
20
Period
19th century
13
18th century
7
20th century
1
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writing book
20
copy books (penmanship)
7
penmanship specimen book
4
exercise books (penmanship)
3
watercolor
3
calligraphy (visual works)
2
exercise book
2
alphabet book
1
alphabets (primers)
1
botanical illustration
1
children's art
1
diagram
1
drawing book
1
graphite drawing
1
ink drawing
1
juvenilia
1
landscape drawing
1
lithograph
1
map
1
maxim
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Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
14
Children -- Conduct of life.
4
Calligraphy -- Great Britain.
2
Copybooks -- Specimens.
2
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
2
Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
2
Penmanship -- Study and teaching
2
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744.
2
School notebooks -- Great Britain.
2
Alphabet -- Early works to 1800.
1
Alphabets -- Early works to 1800.
1
Art, Amateur -- Great Britain.
1
Autographs -- Specimens.
1
Bickham, G. -- Publisher.
1
Building -- Mathematics.
1
Business -- Early works to 1800.
1
Calligraphers -- Early works to 1800.
1
Calligraphers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
1
Calligraphy -- Early works to 1800.
1
Calligraphy.
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19th century
3
17th century
1
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Great Britain
7
England
1
Frodsham
1
Germany
1
London
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
1
Scotland
1
Switzerland
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
2
De Britaine, William
1
Dilworth, Thomas, -1780
1
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
1
Farrar, Thomas Lister, 1836–
1
Gay, John, 1685–1732
1
Gurney, Emma, approximately 1800–1860
1
Holloway, George, fl. 1837–1839
1
Jones, William
1
Milles, Mary Elizabeth, 1767–1818
1
Murray, Lindley, 1745–1826
1
Needham, James
1
Norman, Charles
1
Palmer, Grace, -1890
1
Pease family
1
Pease, Edward Lloyd, 1861–1934
1
Pease, Edward, 1767–1858
1
Pease, Elizabeth Lucy, 1833–1881
1
Pease, Emma Gurney, approximately 1830–1895
1
Pease, Francis Richard, 1844–1865
1
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Exhibition History
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
1
Language
English
19
German
1
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent
1731
2
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
3
Needham, James
Specimens written by James Needham at Heaton Norris School, midsummer, 1847
1847-1848
4
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
5
American standard writing spellers
1881
6
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
7
Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797
Calligraphy exercise book
1797
8
Norman, Charles
Specimens of writing
1832
9
Milns, William, 1761–1801
The penman's repository
[1787]
10
Laurie's standard copy books
[1877]
11
Campion, G
Introduction to ornamental writing
[1830?]
12
Jones, William, writing master
Poikilographia, or, Various specimens of ornamental penmanship
[1830?]
13
Holloway, George, fl. 1837–1839
Writing exercise books
1837-1839
14
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
15
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
The origin and progress of letters
1763
16
Schreuer, J
Blaetter um die Englische text Hand zu erlernen und mit einer kurzen Anleitung zum Selbstunterricht herausgegeben
[183-?]
17
Farrar, Thomas Lister, 1836–
Plane trigonometry,
1850-1851
18
Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
Manuscript copy of Richard Turner's A view of the earth : a short system of modern geography
1798
19
The ornamental penman and arithmetical title writer
1825
20
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The universal penman;
1743