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Your search for Words and Handwriting has returned 32 results. Collection of Tamblyn School of Penmanship Letters and Ephemeral Items (35 items).  Tamblyn School of Penmanship..  Kansas City, Missouri.  circa.1913-14. Collection includes 13 typed letters signed by F.W. Tamblyn; 22 ephemeral items (lesson instuctions, pamphlets, etc) along with 57 student lesson writing samples by Jens Jensen of Portland, Oregon which have annotations by Tamblyn. Frederick William Tamblyn (1870-1947) founded the Tamblyn School of Penmanship in Kansas City in 1895. In addition to conducting the school for many years, he authored books on penmanship and also served as an expert witness on handwriting at criminal trials. Part of the business he founded continues today as "Ziller of Kansas City".The collection of letters, ephemeral items and penmanship samples represents correspondence between F.W. Tamblyn and Jens Jensen of Portland, Oregon, while Jensen was taking a correspondence cource on Business Writing from the Tamblyn School. Tamblyn would send lessons and criticism and Jensen would respond with submissions of his penmanship, following the lessons. Some of Jensen's penmanship is corrected and annotated by Tamblyn in red ink. Tamblyn's Lesson Instructions are on small sheets, typewritten and mimeographed. Of the 20 Lesson Instructions for Business Writing, 16 are present in this collection. Fifteen of Jensen's submissions are also present. Included also are 3 Lesson Instructions for Tamblyn's Artistic Writing course and 7 responses by Jensen.   Condition: Very Good.  Penmanship. DK-37  (Book ID 10623)  $75.00 Style Book: O.A.C. Daily Barometer.  Oregon State Agricultural College.  Corvallis, Oregon.  "O.A.C. Daily Barometer" 25 pages; brown wrapper (3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) with evidence of use to the covers. Some pencil notations in the back. For use as an aid to students to learn the proper syle in the College paper 'Daily Barometer''.   Condition: Very Good.  Newspaper Style Book, College Courses, Sigma Delta Chi. DK-24  (Book ID 10191)  $20.00 The Encyclopedia Britannica: a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information ... Eleventh Edition  The Encyclopedia Britannica Company.  New York.  1910.  29 volumes, complete. Labeled "Handy Volume Issue" by publisher on spine. Flexible pebbled leather, Printed on thin paper. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some creasing to text pages, here and there. One volume with some short chipping at top of spine. An altogether clean and attractive set. Media mail postage in the United States included in price.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 8635)  $375.00 Baker, George M., Editor  The Reading Club and Handy Speaker; Being Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Readings and Recitations  Lee and Shepard, Publishers. 1880. Boston..  First edition. Illustrated cloth. Contents include numerous writings (with and without authors or sources): The Defense of Lucknow, Tennyson; The Outlaw's Yarn, Michael Lynch; People Will Laugh; Ballad of the Bell-Tower, Margaret J. Preston; Mrs. Br own at the Play, Arthur Sketchley; Apples -- A Comedy, Blackwood's Magazine; The Fast Mail, John H. Yates; The City Man and Setting Hen; Miss Edith's Modest Request, Bret Harte; etc.   VERSE. RHYME. RHYTHM. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2751)  $37.50 Beard, Charles A.  The Discussion of Human Affairs  The Macmillan Company.  New York.  1936.  First Edition.  (Subtitle): " An Inquiry into the Nature of the Statements, Assertions, Allegations, Claims, Heats, Tempers, Distempers, Dogmas, and Contentions wihch Appear when Human Affairs are Discussed and into the Possibility of Putting Some Rhyme and Reason into Processes of Discussion." Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Dust wrapper soiled and with some chipping along top. Although written in the 1930's Beard's conclusions are expecially interesting in the modern days of Internet chat rooms and talk radio. 124 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  American Political Thought.  (Book ID 8511)  $17.50 Becker, David P., Cataloger  The Work of Stephen Harvard; A Life in Letters  Harvard College Library. The Houghton Library. 1990. Cambridge, Mass..  Illustrations. 2,000 copies printed. From the Foreword: "The Houghton Library has long cherished its close relationship with Stephen Harvard, which began when he was an undergraduate at Dartmouth. He frequently visited the Departm ent of Printing and Graphic Arts, where his interest in the world of letters.. was encouraged by Philip Hofer". From the Introduction: "Born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1948, Stephen grew up in Connecticut, where his first interest was natural his tory.. " "Along with his boyhood museum of natural history in the basement came the self-taught practice of calligraphy, a correspondence course in cartooning, and courses in etching and oil painting. Entering Dartmouth in 1966 with these developi ng skill s, he was fortunate to become a student of Ray Nash, whose legendary courses in book design, printing, and printmaking focussed Stephen's gifts toward the area in which he was to perform so brilliantly".   Condition: Very Good.  GRAPHIC ARTS. ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. DESIGN. ETCHING. BOOK PRINTING. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2787)  $17.50 Brown, Ivor  Collection of 12 First Editions All in Fine Condition  The collection consists of: "No Idle Words." Jonathan Cape. London. (1948). "I Give You My Word." Cape. London. (1945). "Words in Our Time." Cape. London. (1958). "A Few Words Edgeway." Cape. London. (1953). "Just Another Word." Cape. London. (1943). "Words in Season." Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1961. "Chosen Words." Cape. London. (1955). "A Rhapsody of Words." Bodley Head. London. (1969). "Say the Word." Cape. London. (1947). "I Break My Word." Cape. London. (1951). "Having the Last Word." Cape. London. (1950). "The Way of My World." London. 1954. All are fine copies in unworn dust wrappers.   Writing. Words.  (Book ID 7499)  $137.50 Buck, Charles, (The Late Rev.)  A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of all Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial Account of All the Principal Denominations Which Have Subsisted (continued)  Published by Joseph J. Woodward. 1833. Philadelphia..  Leather. Some illustrations. 624 pages. Title continued: "..in the Religious World From the Birth of Christ to the Present Day; Together with an Accurate Statement of the Most Remarkable Transactions and Events Recorded in Ecclesiastical History ; W oodward's New Edition, Published From the Last London Edition; to Which is Added an Appendix; Containing an Account of the Methodist Episcopal, and Presbyterian Churches, in the United States, to the Present Period". Front cover partially separa ted from lower spine. Front end papers split at spine. Chipping to bottom of spine. Newspaper article pasted to front end paper.   USAGE. WORD DEFINITIONS. LEXICON. ETYMOLOGY. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2768)  $50.00 Ege, Otto F.  The Story of the Alphabet  Norman T. A. Munder & Co. (1921). Baltimore, Maryland..  Boards. Page edges are uncut. Quotes from pages 3-7. "Each letter character has a history and a reason for its present form". We can "trace back with certainty a number of our letters to the Phoenician alphabet of 1000 B. C." The letter A "r epresen ts one of the commonest vowel sounds in ancient languages. Naturally the Phoenician alphabet makers selected a familiar object in the name of which this particular vowel sound was emphasized. Since food is of primal importance, it is not su rprising to find that he chose the ox -- 'Alef' (ah'lef), or rather the head of the ox.." "The second letter of the alphabet represents a crude house, roughly outlined. After food, shelter is an important consideration and this fact was expressed by the ear ly alphabet maker".   LETTERS. VOCABULARY. TONGUE. LINGUISTICS. LANGUAGE. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2782)  $25.00 Frost, S. A.  Frost's School and Exhibition Dialogues; Comprising Frost's Humorous Exhibition Dialogues, and Frost's Dialogues for Young Folks, Combined in One Volume  Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers. (1871). New York..  Cloth. In the Preface, the author states: "In preparing this little volume of Dialogues for the use of the young folks, the author is aware that she has departed from the usual aim of such works, which is to combine moral maxims and improving ideas with a certain amount of recreation. In defiance of all established rules, the author frankly confesses that she is not writing for their instruction at all, but simply aims at their amusement, in the fulle st sense of the term. The Dialogues are wr itten with a view to recreation only, and are specially adapted for celebrations, juvenile parties, or other occasions where a pleasant hour is devoted to innocent entertainment".   ENTERTAINMENT. PARTIES. PLAYLETS. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2765)  $25.00 Graham, Andrew J.  The Hand-Book of Standard or American Phonography  Andrew J. Graham & Co..  New York.  1894.  Cloth.  New and Revised Edition. (First Edition 1858). Illustrations. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover. Front end papers partially split at spine. This book provides background information about phonography, or phonetic shorthand. The word 'phonograph' (noun) is the graphic or written sign of a vocal element. 'Phonetic Shorthand' is writing produced with an alphabet composed of very simple signs. Book provides an Introduction to Phonography; Simple Consonants; Simple Vowels; Contractions and Expedients; Punctuation - Accent - Numbers; Diphthongs; Writing Exercises; etc.   Shorthand. Note-Taking. Writing Symbols. Alphabet. Consonants. Vowels.  (Book ID 4582)  $17.50 Greene, Samuel S.  Green's Introduction: An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar  H. Copperthwait & Co..  Philadelphia.  1857.  First Edition.  Original leather backed illustrated boards. Signatures of Nathan Newton, Lime Road, Smithfield, Rhode Island, dated 1858 on front end paper and pastedown. 192 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  19th Century American Text Books.  (Book ID 8644)  $25.00 Gregg, John Robert  Gregg Shorthand Dictionary.  The Gregg Publishing Company.  New York, New York.  1901.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Power, Pearl A..  146 pages; bound in leather with golt title on the cover (2 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch). Examples of the proper style for shorthand script. Very good clean copy of the First Edition.   Condition: Very Good.  Shorthand Guide. DK-26  (Book ID 10290)  $17.50 Greig, J. Y. T.  Breaking Priscian's Head or English as She Will be Spoke and Wrote  E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. (1929). New York..  Cloth. In this small book the author writes about the spoken language and makes comparisons between the English as spoken in England and that spoken in America. He quotes: "Perhaps the most apparent general characteristic of American speech, so f ar as cadence is concerned, is its levelness of tone. The voice rises and falls within a relatively narrow range, and with few abrupt transitions from high to low or low to high. To British ears American speech often sounds hesitating, monotonous and indecisive, and British speech, on the other hand, is likely to seem to Americans abrupt, explosive and manneristic".   LANGUAGE. WORDS. DIALECT. INFLECTION. GRAMMAR. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2752)  $17.50 Hunter, Estelle B.  A New Self-Teaching Course in Practical English and Effective Speech: Comprising Vocabulary Development, Grammar, Pronunciation, Enunciation, and the Fundamental Principles of Effective Oral Expression.  The Better-Speech Institute of America..  Chicago, Illinois.  1935.  Fifteen pamphlets [28 to 32 pages each] boxed with cover sheet discusing the home course, complete. Title band across the cover of the box. Deals with the correct standard-english version usage in conversation and correspondence along with lessons to achieve it. In very good condition. Complete sets are uncommon.   Condition: Fine.  Language, English, Speech. DK-12  (Book ID 9588)  $50.00 Johnston, Sir Harry H.  The Story of My Life  Chatto & Windus.  London.  1923.  First Edition.  Four illustrations, including a frontispiece engraving of the author. Dust wrapper with dampstain running down middle of spine, but not affecting the book. Dust wrapper has some small chips and a closed tear. From the promotional material by the publisher: "Sir Harry Johnston's rich life as explorer began while he was still in his teen, shen, as an artist, he stayed in Tunis and made adventurous excursions therefrom. All Africa, since that time, has been his province, as this fascinating book clearly shows. He has made intelligible to strangers the many dialects of the Bantu languages; his specimens of previously unknown birds and animals are in our national collections; year after year he has contributed brillant studies of plumage and jungle splendours to the Royal Academy. Artist, explorer, linguist and philologist; ardent politician and administrator; and one who has lived fully and observantly amoung the most notable men and women of the last fifty years, Sir Harry Johnston covers the who of his life in one absorbing narrative. The book is crowded with memories of a long life of extraordinary varied interests, and its portraits and pictures are those of wide and vivid experience." Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering. 536 pages, including index.   Condition: Fine.  Africa. British Travel. Art. Philology.  (Book ID 7584)  $50.00 Lenglet Duffresnoy, Nicolas  Chronological Tables of Universal History,Sacred and Profane, Ecclesiastical and Civil from the Creation of the World to the Year One Thousan Seven Hundred and Forty Three with a Preliminary Discourse on the Short Method of Studying History (cont).  Printed for A. Miller....  London.  1762.  First English Language Edition.  ...and a Catalogue of Books Necessar for that Purpose with Some Remarks on Them...In Two Parts, Tr. from the Last French Edition and Continued Down to the Death of King George II. Two volumes. csiii, 332; x, 446. Full contemporary calf, leather title and volume labels. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown of vol. one.   Condition: Very Good.  Historical Chronology, French History, English History, France, England  (Book ID 5170)  $200.00 Lily, William  A Shorte Introduction of Grammar ... With an Introduction By Vincent J. Flynn, President, College of St. Thomas  Scholars' Fascimilies & Reprints.  New York.  1945.  Publisher's black cloth with gold lettering. A fascimile of the 1567 edition that is housed in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. 12 page introduction by Flynn. Fascimile text unpaginated.   Condition: Fine.  (Book ID 8534)  $37.50 Lopes, A. Simoes  Selecta de Manuscripto Para uso das escolas densino primario  Livraria Portuense de Lopes & C. 1892. Porto..  Portugese handwriting. 1/4 leather with patterned boards. Slight chipping to top of spine and some wear to cover edges. Ink notation front end paper dated 1893. Split at spine after title page. Contents include: Iniciaes e abreviaturas mais vu lgare s; Abreviaturas no commercio; Mezes do anno; Nomes e appellidos; Breves mais communs.   HANDWRITING. VOCABULARY. LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2792)  $25.00 McDevitt, Wm.  "Rite-It-Rite"; The Complete Shorthand Based on the Laws of Linear, Vocalized, Connective-vowel Phonography, and Originating a Fundamental Scientific Principle of Brevity with Legibility -- The Fonetic Root (cover title)  Unknown.  San Francisco.  1937.  Third Revised Edition.  Illustrated Wrappers.  36-page booklet. Illustrations. Directions and examples for this shorthand method. Eight-page pamphlet laid in: "American Typewriter Shorthand", Designed Especially for Typing and Typists by Wm. McDevitt.   Stenographer. Stenographic Characters. Speed Writing. Graphic Expression.  (Book ID 4972)  $15.00 McKee, C.E.  McKee's New Standard Shorthand: A New and Simplified Method of Brief Phonographic Writing Adapted to All the Uses Made of Shorthand Writing in Modern Times....  Perrin Publishing Company.  Buffalo, N.Y..  1892.  First Edition.  Publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Illustrated. Charles E. McKee was also the author of "The New Rapid System of Shortland." 150 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Short Hand. Writing.  (Book ID 7842)  $47.50 Munson, James E.  Munson's System of Phonograpy: The Dictionary of Practical Phonography, Giving the Best Phonographic Forms for the Words of the English Language (Sixty Thousand) and for Over Five Thousand Proper Names, Also Illustrating the Principles (Title Cont.)  Houghton Mifflin and Company: The Riverside Press.  Boston.  1881.  (title continued). " ....of Phrase-Writing, Altogether Representing a Much Larger Number of Words Than Any Previous Short-Hand Dictionary." Later printing. 328 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Shorthand.  (Book ID 7491)  $17.50 Parker, Willis C.  The Modern Business Letter Writer Containing Speciman Business Letters on a Great Variety of Subjects, Together with All the Standard Business Forms Used in Modern Commercial Intercourse, Also Concise and Simplified Rules (continued)  M. A. Donohue & Co. (1912). Chicago..  Cloth with illustration on front cover. Title continued: "..for Punctuation, the Use of Capital Letters and the Forms of Salutation, Courteous Closing, Addresses, etc."   CORRESPONDENCE. GRAMMAR. WORD USAGE. VOCABULARY. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2773)  $25.00 Parsons, James  Remains of Japhet: Being Historical Enquiries Into the Affinity and Origin of the European Languages.  Printed for The Author.  London.  1767.  First Edition.  xxxii, 419 pages, 3 folded plates, full leather, 5 raised bands, gilt stamped red morocco spine label, 11 x 8.5". Rebacked, clean and tight, some scuffing of edges, owner signature "David James. Clk.-1833" and with occasional annotations and underscoring; very good. Some irregularities in numbering between pages 51-60 and 265-272, but complete. An interesting work, Remains of Japhet marks the beginnings of comparative philology in England. It did much to stimulate curiosity in the relationship between language and alphabets during the latter part of the 18th century and has an undoubted historical significance. The book has a peculiar interest for the historian of Celtic studies, since the work is, in large part, devoted to proving that the inhabitants of Ireland speak a language directly descended from Japhetan. The Welsh and Irish languages are compared. James Parsons (1705-1770), physician, learned antiquary, and author. He studied medicine in Paris, and received his degree at Rheims in 1736. He then went to London, where he assisted Dr. James Douglas in his anatomical studies and was appointed physician to the public infirmary of St. Giles in 1738. In 1741 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Antiquarian Society; serving as Assistant Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the Royal Society. He published many papers on subjects of natural history in Philosophical Transactions (1742-1768), and a number of professional and other works.   Philology; Leather Bindings; Early Printed Books; Languages; Celtic  (Book ID 5913)  $300.00 Pitman, Benn  The Reporter's Companion.  Phonographic Institute..  Cincinnati, Ohio.  1877.  176 pages; plates of examples; publishers cloth binding with title and design on the cover. Wear to the cover and bumped corners, tear to the bottom of the spine. Former owner's name and date '1878' on the front flyleaf. Clean copy inside.   Condition: Very Good.  Shorthand Guide. DK-26  (Book ID 10291)  $17.50 Pollock, J. S.  Autograph Letter Signed  1918.  Autograph two page letter (8 x 10 inch) signed, on lined sheets. Dated April 8, 1918 from Little Rock, Arkansas. Letter to a family friend (Mrs. Barnett) commenting on news of WWI, health and discussing mutual friends. J.S. Pollock (c.1840- ) was working in the post office in St. Louis when the Civil War broke out and was appointed Post Master in a number of southern cities after the Union Army liberated them. Among the cities were Memphis (1862), Vicksburg (1863), and Little Rock (1864). After the Civil War he remained in the Postal System and later went into banking. Some evidence of folding.   Condition: Very Good.  Postal, Little Rock, Ark.,  (Book ID 8939)  $37.50 Rankin, Herbert A.  From Script to Cursive  Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. (Circa 1920). London..  Cloth covered paper boards. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. White pencil notation back cover. Name in ink on front cover. Printing and handwriting illustrations. Margin notations and underlining in lead pencil and red pencil. In th e Pre face, the author notes that he has taught handwriting for twenty years. He describes script writing, manuscript letter-forms, and print-form writing.   HANDWRITING. PRINT. POTHOOKS. HANGARS. WRITING. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2776)  $17.50 Rice, Louise  Graphology: The Science of Reading Character in Handwriting  Privately Printed By Eaton, Crane & Pike Company.  New York.  First Edition.  Paper over boards, with attractive impressed illustration of midieval scribe writing at desk. Foreword by Ethel Watts Mumford. Nicely printed in red and black. Illustrated with examples of different handwriting styles. 75 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Handwriting Analysis.  (Book ID 8050)  $17.50 Smith, Adele Millicent  Proof-Reading and Punctuation  Published by the Author. 1902. Philadelphia..  First edition. Cloth. Illustrations. From the Preface: "The need of a manual of ready reference, embodying the information necessary in ordinary proof-reading, has led to the preparation of the present volume". Contents include: Proof-Marks; P repar ing Copy; Reading Proof; Sizes and Styles of Types; Typesetting; Paper; Half-Tone and Line Engraving; Punctuation Marks; Quotation Marks; etc.   GRAMMAR. LINGUISTICS. WORD USAGE. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2771)  $25.00 Smith, Benjamin E.  The Century Cyclopedia of Names; A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archaeology, Fiction, Etc., Etc., Etc.  The Century Co. (1894). New York..  3/4 leather with cloth. Leather has some white markings. Stain on back cover. Corners worn. Small tear bottom of page 418. From the Preface: "The entries.. comprise not only names in biography and geography, but also names of races and tribes , myth ological and legendary persons and places, characters and objects in fiction, stars and constellations, notable buildings and archaeological monuments, works of art, institutions (academies, universities, societies, legislative bodies, orders, clubs , etc.), historical events (wars, battles, treaties, conventions, etc.), sects, parties, noted streets and squares, books, plays, operas, and even celebrated gems, vessels (war-ships, yachts, etc.), and horses. Pseudonyms, also, which have li terary importance are included. The only condition of insertion has been that the name should be one about which information would be likely to be sought."   ENCYCLOPEDIA. PERSONS. PLACES. HISTORY. LITERATURE. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2756)  $50.00 Soule, Richard  A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology  Little, Brown, and Company. 1871. Boston..  First edition. Cloth. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. 456 pages. From the Preface: "The main design of this Dictionary is to provide a ready means of assistance when one is at a loss for a word or an expression that best suits a par ticu lar turn of thought or mood of the mind, or that may obviate an ungraceful repetition".   LEXICON. LANGUAGE. VOCABULARY. WORDS. Words and Handwriting  (Book ID 2770)  $37.50 Utter, Robert Palfrey  Pearls & Pepper  Yale University Press.  New Haven.  1924.  First Edition.  Essays on literature, words, historical subjects, etc., by Utter, a University of California professor.   Condition: Fine.  Literary Essays  (Book ID 7487)  $17.50

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