Production de tous les genres d'écriture basée sur des principes certaines avec des traits d'ornement [...].

Folio: 25 ff.; [15] pp. (several stains, some foxing throughout, trimmed short at head, frayed edges with some loss of paper).

No covers, as issued, bound with cord.

Lechard was a French calligrapher and writer, who published several manuals on handwriting in the 1790s. From 1799 he was a professor at the recently founded Lycée des Arts. The work provides the reader and learning writer with various examples of fine handwriting and excrcises. Engraved by Molé.
Ref. Bonacini 1033.