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  • SIGNED ¾ morocco over marbled boards. Wear to corners, 4 raised bands to spine, bottom compartment lacking; gilt rules to both boards;
  • Frankfurt am Main , 1760
By Schirmer, Johann Michael
Oblong small 4to. (10 ¼" x 8 ¼")
Engraved title and all 54 writing sample boards, engraved by H. Cöntgen in Mainz. The plates cover a wide range of calligraphic material including cyphers, alphabets, flourishes, designs and scripts. Schirmer was a "school, writing and arithmetic master" in Frankfurt am Main. An uncommon writing book.

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