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    _THE_
    Compendious Emblematist;
    _OR_
    WRITING and DRAWING
    made Easy,
    _Amusing and Instructive_.
    The Whole Engrav'd by the
    BEST HANDS

    W. Chinnery Sec.
    _T Hutchinson_]




    Writing and Drawing,
    _made Easy_,
    AMUSING and INSTRUCTIVE.

    Containing

    _The Whole Alphabet in all the Characters now us'd_
    Both in Printing and Penmanship;
    _Each illustrated by Emblematic Devices and Moral Copies,
    Calculated for the Use of Schools, and_
    Curiously Engrav'd, by the Best Hands.

    _Let every Day some labour'd Line produce
    Command of Hand is gain'd by constant use_

    _LONDON._

    Printed for and Sold by T. Bellamy, Bookseller at Kingston
            upon Thames; as also
    by most of the Book-sellers and Print-sellers in Town and Country.




SUBSCRIBERS NAMES.


    A.
    MR. Thomas Allen

    B.
    The _Rev._ Mr. Thomas Bellamy
    Charles Betke, _Esq._
    Mr. R. Bryan
    _Miss_ Emma Maria Brocas
    Mr. ---- Brookes, _Surgeon_

    C.
    James Clark, _Esq._
    Mr. James Comber
    Mr. Robert Chambers
    Mr. Benjamin Cole

    D.
    Mr. Charles Delafoss
    Mr. Christopher Goddard
    Mr. John Frederick Duill
    Mr. ---- Dupuis

    F.
    Mr. Charles Fleaureau
    Mr. ---- Fulling
    Mr. ---- Faden

    G.
    Richard Garbrand, _Esq._
    Mr. John Glover
    Miss Jane Gore
    Mr. Abraham Goodwin
    Mr. ---- Garvaise, 4 Books
    Mrs. ---- Girardot
    Mrs. ---- Garvaise
    Mrs. Judith Garvaise
    Mrs. Elizabeth Garvaise

    H.
    Thomas Howlett, _Esq._
    Mr. John Halford, 2 Books
    Mr. Thomas Hill
    Mr. John Hardinge
    Mr. William Hamilton
    Mr. Thomas Harrache
    Mr. Thomas Hemming

    I.
    Thomas Jones, _Esq._

    K.
    John Kirrill, _Esq._
    Mrs. ---- Knipe, 2 Books

    L.
    Mr. Thomas Lupton
    Mr. Charles Laggatt
    Mrs. ---- Lawrence
    Mrs. Easter Lacam

    M.
    _Right Hon. Lady_ Betty Montague
    _Lady_ ---- Musgrove
    ---- Montague, _Esq._
    Mr. Henry Morland
    Mr. Charles M'Clarren
    Mr. Samuel Mettayer
    Mrs. Ann Mettayer
    Mrs. ---- Montague

    N.
    James Norman, _Esq._
    Mr. Edward North
    Mrs. Anne Norman
    Miss Anne Norman

    P.

    Mr. Francis Pitt
    Mr. ---- Palmer
    Mr. Hinckley Phipps

    R.
    Mr. William Rose

    S.
    John Stow, _Esq._
    Mr. Robert Shepheard
    Mr. Duncan Stewart
    Mr. ---- Sabatier
    Mr. James Soleirol
    Mrs. Mary Stewart
    Mrs. Anne Samson

    T.
    Mr. ---- Tomlinson

    W.
    Mrs. Grace White
    Mrs. Elizabeth Walton
    Miss Anne Warren




PREFACE.


THE Usefulness of Books calculated for the Improvement of young People
in the Arts of _Writing_ and _Drawing_, are too evident to need being
insisted upon.--We shall therefore only beg leave in a very concise
Manner to point out the particular Merits of the Work we here offer the
Public.

FIRST, then, it is humbly proposed as an Assistant to School-Masters;
for as the greatest Part of these our Moral Copies were first wrote by
that able and experienced Penman, Mr. _William Chinnery_ Senior, and
engraved from thence by an Artist very eminent in his Way; they will
save such Masters the Trouble as well as Time of writing a Variety of
Copies for their young Pupils with their own Hands.

AGAIN, this little Book will undoubtedly be found of infinite Advantage
to such Persons, as either cannot write at all, or but very
indifferently, and have no Opportunity of being instructed by any able
Master; for here they will find not only all the Characters made use of
in Printing; but those, likewise, in all the Hands that are most useful,
and most practised throughout _Great-Britain_ in the Way of Trade and
Business.

AND, that No One,