2026-03-21
A tutor to penmanship
AUTHOR: John Ayres
ARTIST: John Ayres and John Sturt
YEAR: 1698
CATEGORY: Typography/Calligraphy
LINK:
Library of Congress
NOTES: A Tutor to Penmanship, or The Writing Master is a landmark 17th-century English copy book, created by writing master John Ayres and engraved by John Sturt. Published around 1695-1698 in London, it was designed to show "all the variety of penmanship and clerkship as now practised in England"
