Specimens of Penmanship written

by Mas. F.B. Leach at the High School, Oldham, Conducted by the Rev. Hugh Tait, B.A. two volumes by Manuscript, Francis B. Leach

$850 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

Leeds: Bean, Stationer, 1865 . Two oblong folio volumes, measuring 9.25 x 12 inches: 16 . Original glazed moiré card wrappers with gilt-embossed card frames and scenic chromolithographs windmills in a field, a lakeside castle mounted to covers. Tissue-guarded engraved pictorial title pages, featuring scenes of Cambridge, with Leach’s name added in manuscript in colored inks. Six leaves of penmanship specimens and

• Binding: Wrappers

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