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A New Newe Booke of Copies

About the pack
Contents

Package fonts:

Formal Text
Italic Hand
Chancery
Bastard Secretary
Secretary
Common Pleas

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Secretary Hand

Typeface display:

Some of the extra historical characters provided:

Historical note:

Arising in the early sixteenth century out of the need for a universal hand, to cope with the increase in business and personal correspondence following the Renaissance. The Secretary Hand is developed from the cursive business hands, and was in common use throughout England in the early seventeenth century.

This typeface is part of A New Newe Booke of Copies