The compleat writing master : a copy book, furnished with all the most usefull hands now practised by the best artists in London : together with such plain and easie directions for young learners, that they may in a short time (without the help of a teacher) fit themselves for any trade or imployment whatsoever : with directions for the making of all sorts of knots or flourishes / invented, written, and engraven by E. Cocker.
1670
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Title
The compleat writing master : a copy book, furnished with all the most usefull hands now practised by the best artists in London : together with such plain and easie directions for young learners, that they may in a short time (without the help of a teacher) fit themselves for any trade or imployment whatsoever : with directions for the making of all sorts of knots or flourishes / invented, written, and engraven by E. Cocker.
Created/published
London : Printed for Tho. Basset at the George neer Cliffords Inn in Fleetstreet, and Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-Lane, 1670.
Description
[3], 13 p., [15] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 16 x 19 cm (oblong 4to)
Associated name
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675, author.
Bassett, Thomas (Bookseller), bookseller.
Pawlet, Robert, -1683, bookseller.
Macclesfield, Earls of, former owner.
Bassett, Thomas (Bookseller), bookseller.
Pawlet, Robert, -1683, bookseller.
Macclesfield, Earls of, former owner.
Note
Signatures: pi1 A⁴ B⁴(-B4). Oblong quarto with vertical chainlines.
Section of plates at end are introduced with an engraved title page: The young clerk's president : a copy-book containing examples of all hands proper to clerk-ship, and directions peculiar to all those hands : with diagrams for the making of knots / invented, written, and engraven by Edward Cocker ; sold by Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery Lane, 1664.
Even page numbers are on the rectos.
Not in Wing (2nd ed.); see C4832b.
Section of plates at end are introduced with an engraved title page: The young clerk's president : a copy-book containing examples of all hands proper to clerk-ship, and directions peculiar to all those hands : with diagrams for the making of knots / invented, written, and engraven by Edward Cocker ; sold by Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery Lane, 1664.
Even page numbers are on the rectos.
Not in Wing (2nd ed.); see C4832b.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, R492288
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
260- 937q
Folger-specific note
In contemporary quarter vellum case binding with reinforced blue paper boards; 13th plate bound upside down; spine title "Cocker's copy-book." manuscript practice letterforms on one leaf. Provenance: armorial bookplate (motto: "Sapere aude") of the Earls of Macclesfield's "South Library" at Shirburn Castle, shelfmark 168.C.24, and blind stamp of Macclesfield crest.