The Growth of Copperplate Script
The Growth of Copperplate Script
Joseph Champion and The Universal Penman
The formation and development of the ‘copperplate’ script was one of the distinctive features of the growth of the British mercantile empire in the eighteenth century. Joseph Champion, whose script typified it, popularised in his engraved writing manuals, and reached its apex in The Universal Penman, a large folio of different scripts and forms used in commercial documents. Through it, ‘copperplate’ spread throughout Britain and its dependencies, and from them to other countries in Europe and North America.
Keywords: Commerce, Script, Calligraphy, Writing Manuals, Accounting, Penmanship, Navigation, Education
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