Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHAMPION, JOSEPH. The Penman's Employment. A new Copy Book, containing Choice Variety of Examples in all the Hands of England. Engraved title and 43 plates. Oblong folio, 254x422 mm, contemporary boards, rebacked with cloth, spine ends frayed; contents soiled, varying marginal dampstaining, free endpapers lacking. London: Robert Sayer, 1765

Additional Details

Harvard/Becker 216 (1762 edition); Heal, page 183 note. the calligrapher alfred fairbank's copy, with his signature dated 1955.