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<dl><dd>Signatures: *⁴ 2*⁴ A-T⁴ V²</dd>
<dd>"Primeira parte." No more published</dd>
<dd>The licenses are dated 1719 and 1722</dd>
<dd>Three issues are known, each containing the same engravings and text, but differing in typography and woodcut material: the first issue t.p. vignette is a flower basket; the second issue t.p. vignette is a vase of flowers within a grotesque frame; in the third issue, the preliminaries are condensed into [16] p.--Cf. Campos Ferreira Lima</dd>
<dd>Engravings: Portuguese royal arms borne above Lisbon by two angels, and portrait of Figueiredo, both by Picart; divisional title and 44 writing samples, most signed by Andrade. Leaf 44 has colophon: Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo, les, escreveo, e inventou na era de 1718</dd>
<dd>Includes commendatory poems by Manuel Telles da Silva and João Tavares Mascarenhas, among others</dd>
<dd>Becker, D.P. Practice of letters</dd>
<dd>Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie</dd>
<dd>Campos Ferreira Lima, H. de. Calígrafos portugueses</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Copybooks; Penmanship; Alphabets; Portuguese language</div>
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<dl><dd>Figueiredo, Manuel de Andrade de, ca. 1665-1735</dd>
<dd>Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733</dd></dl></div>
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