Nova escola para aprender a ler, escrever, & contar
A Portuguese penmanship copybook printed in Lisbon in 1722 by Manuel de Andrade de Figueiredo, with engravings by Bernard Picart, intended for students learning to read, write and count. The pictures show ornate decorative capital letters in plates arranged in grid frames, some engraved fully and others left as faint pencil sketches, offering a designer examples of flourished initials built from looping scrolls and foliate strokes.
