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L'Art de Juger du Caractère des Hommes sur leur Ecriture avec vingt-quatre Planches représentant les Ecritures de Divers Personnages Célèbres Gravées d'après les Originaux Autographes
181677929Paris: Saintin 1816. Paperback. Paris Saintin 1816 new enlarged edition/ 1812. Sextodecimo 78 pages plus 24 pages of illustrations principally examples of handwriting and a hand-coloured pictorial frontispiece. Uncut in the original wrappers mounted on earlier recycled printed matter with the spine expertly renewed; edges of the wrappers and leaves a little chipped with some corners rounded off or a trifle dog-eared; overall a most agreeable copy. Examples of the handwriting of Elizabeth I Mary Stuart Louis XIV Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Rousseau and Voltaire among others are given. The first two plates contain a relatively early French example of the complete manual alphabet for the deaf. Saintin paperback
