The Art of Writing Reduced to a Plain and Easy System on a Plan Entirely New, in Seven Books

by John Jenkins

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second Edition. Engraved title-page and portrait frontispiece, plus 10 engraved plates. xlviii, 68, 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original boards with roan spine. Foxed and worn, front joint cracked, portrait and title slightly dampstained. Nash, American Writing Masters, pp.26-34; Shaw & Shoemaker 28833. Item #8761 Book I of Jenkin's work first appeared in Boston in 1791 as a small 32pp. pamphlet. It appears here in

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