A booke containing diuers sortes of hands : as well the English as French secretarie with the Italian, Roman, chancelry & court hands. Also the true & iust proportio[n] of the capitall Roma[n]e set forth by Iohn de Beau Chesne and M. Iohn Baildon.

Rules made by E.B. for his children to learn to write by.

Imprinted at London : By Richard Field dwelling in the Blacke-Friers neare Ludgate, 1602.

[88] p. : ill. ; obl. (4to)

Incorrectly reported as being based on "Le thresor d'escripture" (1550). The copies differ somewhat in the order of the woodcut specimens (printed only on the rectos in all editions) and in the quire signatures found on some of them. STC 6446 adds "Rules made by E.B. for his children to learn to write by". The type for the "Rules" is reimposed in folio format in STC 1024.5, where it is in the same 1-column typesetting. Settings of the "Rules" in STC 6446.6 and following, 3361.3 and following, and 3363.5 and following are all in two columns--Cf. STC.
Suggested publication date from STC.
Formerly also STC 6448.7.
A2v last line reads: END. "Rules made by E.B. for children to write by" are in the same typesetting and imposition as 6448.7--Cf. STC.
Signatures: A-L⁴.
Another issue, with imprint date, of STC 6448.7.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1966. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1063:04).
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1954. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 591:02).

Curatorial file available.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 01)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 6449
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121071

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 6450.2

cs1014. Manuscript notes; manuscript date on title page: 1570. Lacks C1, E1, G4, quire H, I1, I2, I4, quire K, and L1 and L2 - some of which are supplied in photostats from copies of other editions; I3 bound after E1; all leaves are tipped in at inner margin. Provenance: inscriptions: on front wrapper: "Printed from Wooden Blocks 1570..."; on t.p.: "Ed King"; on verso of leaf numbered '19' in manuscript: "William Caldecott"; bought by Folger in 1921 from Ellis Catalogue 201:68