Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by Tamara Plakins Thornton - 1996

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The author has specialized in 19th-century U.S. history, intellectual history, and in copybooks, the Palmer Method, advertising copy, and the transition from type to script. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Plentiful black-and-white plates and illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv [2], 3-248 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.