The Later Court Hands In England From The Fifteenth To 17Th Century Jenkinson, Hilary Antiquarian & Scholarly

1927 2 vols. Jenkinson, Hilary. The Later Court Hands in England from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Illustrated from the Common Paper of the Scriveners' Company of London, the English Writing Masters & the Public Records. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Printed by W. Lewis, M.A., at the University Press, 1927. Part I Text: ix, [200] pp. Illustrations; Part II; Plates. Four-page list of plates, 44 plates (i-xliv); 5 unnumbered plates with 20 alphabets. Folio. (14-1/2" x 11"). Part I brown cloth with dust jacket. Part II: portfolio with plates contained loose. Together 2 books. Moderate shelf wear, internally clean and bright. $400. * First edition. Two volumes. With its pictorial material and transcriptions, this is one of the most thorough reference works on 14th-17th century handwriting. Designed primarily as a continuation of "English court hand A.D. 1066 to 1500" by Charles Johnson and Hilary Jenkinson, published in 1915. Part II contains transcripts of plates with notes. Bibliographical foot-notes, with "Summary" appendix I, p. 113-115.