Writing and Drawing Made Easy, Amusing and Instructive

Writing and Drawing made Easy, Amusing, and Instructive by William Chinnery is a guidebook to writing and illustration. Chinnery illustrates images to go with a word for every letter of the alphabet, in addition to various moral sayings. Excerpt: «THE Usefulness of Books calculated for the Improvement of young People in the Arts of Writing and Drawing are too evident to need insisting upon.—We shall therefore only beg to leave in a very concise manner to point out the particular Merits of the Work we here offer the Public. First, then, it is humbly proposed as an Assistant to School-Masters; for as the greatest Part of these our Moral Copies were first written by that able and experienced Penman, Mr. William Chinnery Senior, and engraved from thence by an Artist very eminent in his Way; they will save such Masters the Trouble as well as Time of writing a Variety of Copies for their young Pupils with their own Hands.»