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Title: Calligraphy. - 6 decorative sheets with moral sayings in calligraphic handwriting, mounted on 3 leaves.
Description: around 1846, oblong, 37.5x23 cm, calligraphic writing in black ink on 6 sheets of paper mounted recto verso on 3 slightly larger blue paper sheets with watermark 'THSaunders&Co 1846'. ¶ Beautifully executed exercise of script of the time and different calligraphic titles as well as decorative headers presenting animals (swan, eagle and fish) all drawn with the quill pen. The moral sayings are entitled Knowledge, Learning, Charity (and) Friendship'. A testimony of a vanishing art. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.
Keywords: calligraphy calligraphie manuscript, manuscripts manuscrit
Title: Calligraphy. - 6 decorative sheets with moral sayings in calligraphic handwriting, mounted on 3 leaves.
Description: around 1846, oblong, 37.5x23 cm, calligraphic writing in black ink on 6 sheets of paper mounted recto verso on 3 slightly larger blue paper sheets with watermark 'THSaunders&Co 1846'. ¶ Beautifully executed exercise of script of the time and different calligraphic titles as well as decorative headers presenting animals (swan, eagle and fish) all drawn with the quill pen. The moral sayings are entitled Knowledge, Learning, Charity (and) Friendship'. A testimony of a vanishing art. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.
Keywords: calligraphy calligraphie manuscript, manuscripts manuscrit
Price: CHF 150.00 = appr. US$ 148.83 Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
- Book number: 97673
- Book number: 97673