The Art of Writing Reduced to a Plain and Easy System on a Plan Entirely New, in Seven Books.
Cambridge: Printed for the Author, [1813].
Price: $450.00
About the item
Second Edition. Engraved title-page and portrait frontispiece, plus 10 engraved plates. xlviii, 68, [4]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original boards with roan spine. Foxed and worn, front joint cracked, portrait and title slightly dampstained. Nash, American Writing Masters, pp.26-34; Shaw & Shoemaker 28833.
Item #8761
Book I of Jenkin's work first appeared in Boston in 1791 as a small 32pp. pamphlet. It appears here in its greatly expanded form. The author's original plan to extend the set to seven volumes seems never to have materialized. Jenkins' system is an ingenious and radical departure from previous systems of instruction, and attempts to analyze the alphabet into 6 basic strokes of the pen.
