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Daniels copy-book: or, A compendium of the most usual hands of England, Netherland, France, Spain, and Italy, : with the Hebrew, Samaritan, Caldaean, Syrian, Aegyptian, Arabian, Greek, Saxon, Gotick, Craotian, Slavonian, Muscovian, Armenian, Roman, Florentine, Venetian, Saracen, Aethiopian, and Indian characters; vvith all the hands now most in mode and present use in Christendom, written with a singular dexterity, and after a more easie, ready, free and gentle way than hitherto hath been ever practised or known in this kingdom. Together with sundry portraitures of men, beasts and birds, in their various forms and proportions, naturally drawn with single touches, without former presidents. All very useful for ingenious gentlemen, scholars, merchants, travellers, and all sorts of pen-men. Written and invented by Rich. Daniel Gent. and ingraven by Edw. Cocker philomath