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A Booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the
English as French secretarie with the Italian, Roman, Chancelrie and court hands. Also the true and just proportion of the capitall Rom(an)ae set forth by John de Beau Chesne. P(arisien) and M. John Baildon. Imprinted at London by Thomas
93:. He is likely related to a group of printers and booksellers active in Paris in the 16th century named Beauchesne: Abraham Beauchesne (active around 1532), Julien Beauchesne (1545) and Jeanne Beauchesne, wife of the Parisian printer Jean Plumyon, killed In 1572 during the
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Merciere with the sign of the Trinity, 1580. 4 ° obl., 62 pl. woodcuts by Mathieu Greuter and dedicated to Francis Mandelot, Lieutenant General for the King in Lyon (Paris BNF, Chicago NL, Cambridge HUL). Becker 1997 No.
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A Booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the
English as French secretarie with the Italian, Roman, chancelry & court hands. Set forth by John Beau Chesne and John Baildon.
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Le Tresor d' Escriture, au que I est contenu tout ce qui est requis et necessaire a taus amateurs dudict art. Par jehan de
Beauchesne Parisien, Avec privilege du Roi
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Protestant opinions); in 1567 he had been living in the ward of
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La Clef de l'escriture laquelle ouvre le chemin à la jeunesse, pour bien apprendre à excrire la vraye lettre françoyse & italique'
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