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L'art d'écrire par Alais

Alais de Beaulieu, Jean Baptiste, Senault, Louis, active 1669-1680, engraver, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1680 · Paris, Chez l'auteur, au coin de la ruë du Harlay, 1680. · 13 pictures

L'art d'écrire is a 1680 Paris penmanship manual by calligrapher Jean Baptiste Alais de Beaulieu, engraved by Louis Senault and published by the author for writing students and masters. Its pictures are engraved flourishes, looping scrolls, ovals and cartouches framing French captions, with fine hairline strokes and spiral curls a designer could adapt for ornamental lettering and border work.

France · Paris · Penmanship

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