DLC Catalog

1. American Geography: or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. Containing Astronomical Geography. Geographical Definitions. Discovery, and General Description of America

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

Name: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1789
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

2. American Instructor: or, Young Man's Best Companion

Fisher, George (Accomptant)

Name: Fisher, George (Accomptant)
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1748
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-3

3. American Penman, Comprising the Art of Writing, Plain and Ornamental

Huntington, Eleazer, 1789-1852

Name: Huntington, Eleazer, 1789-1852
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1824
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-3

4. American Preceptor; being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the use of schools

Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817

Name: Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1797
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-3

5. Arithmetiqve made easie

Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656

Name: Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1630

6. Arts Glory, or, The Pen-Mans Treasury

Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675

Name: Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1666
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-2

7. Boke Named the Governour

Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546

Name: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1557
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-2

8. Boke Named the Governour

Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546

Name: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1557
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-2

9. Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands, as well the English as French Secretarie with the Italian, Roman, Chancelry & Court Hands

Beau-Chesne, Jehan de

Name: Beau-Chesne, Jehan de
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1570
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-1

10. Confessio Amantis

Gower, John, 1325?-1408

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: circa 1400-1415
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/reading/englishcanon/canonicalbooks

11. Course of Elementary Reading in Science and Literature

M'Culloch, J. M. (James Melville), 1801-1883

Name: M'Culloch, J. M. (James Melville), 1801-1883
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1857
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

12. Dean’s Recently Improved Analytical Guide, to the Art of Penmanship

Dean, Henry, 1788-1849

Name: Dean, Henry, 1788-1849
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1808
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-3

13. Directions for Writing. Set Forth for the Benefit of Poore Schollers

G. D.

Name: G. D.
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1656
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-2

14. Education of Chaucer Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in His Time

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1935
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/medieval-trivium/page-1

15. Education of Shakespeare: Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in his Time

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1933
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-1

16. Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara

Euclid

Name: Euclid
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1570
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-2

17. Fonotipic instructur, or, Furst rediu buc for adults hw hav nevur ben tot tw red

Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890

Name: Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1846
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

18. Gaskell’s Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing

Gaskell, G. A. (George A.), 1844-

Name: Gaskell, G. A. (George A.), 1844-
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1876
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-5

19. Geometrical Practical Treatize Named Pantometria

Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559

Name: Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1591
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/mathematics/page-3

20. Ginn & Company's writing books

Ginn and Company

Name: Ginn and Company
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1892

21. Handwriting for the broad-edge pen : a teachers' manual

Moore, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1846-

Name: Moore, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1846-
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1926
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-5

22. Journal of an African Slaver, 1789-1792

American Antiquarian Society

Name: American Antiquarian Society
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1930
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/slavery/page-1

23. Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid may be a Scholar

Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678

Name: Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1659
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-2

24. Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Designed for the Use of Teachers and Advanced Learners

Balch, William Stevens, 1806-1887

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1838

25. Martin's System of Practical Penmanship Taught in 24 Lessons at His Writing and Book Keeping Academy, No. 182 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.

Martin, E. T.

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1848

26. New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggars, thieves, cheats, &c

B. E.

Name: B. E.
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: Bookseller's notes indicate 19th century reprint, in boards, with paper label dated 1690
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

27. Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or, the Partitions of Sciences

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

Name: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1640
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

28. The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner Manual of Penmanship. P., D., & S. Authors: J. W. Payson, S. Dunton, W. M. Scribner, G. H. Shattuck, A. S. Manson

Payson, J. W. (Jesse Wentworth)

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1873

29. Penmanship, or, The Beauties of Writing Exemplified in a Variety of Specimens, Practical and Ornamental

Gould, Nathaniel D. (Nathaniel Duren), 1781-1864

Name: Gould, Nathaniel D. (Nathaniel Duren), 1781-1864
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1822
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-4

30. Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools

Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802

Name: Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1797
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-3

31. Principles of Musik, in Singing and Setting : vvith the Two-Fold Use Therof, Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Butler, Charles, -1647

Name: Butler, Charles, -1647
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1636
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

32. Rara arithmetica : a catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

Name: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1908
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/mathematics/page-1

33. Rudiments of Conchology

Venning, Mary Ann

Name: Venning, Mary Ann
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1826
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-4

34. Rudiments of Latin Prosody

Otis, James, 1725-1783

Name: Otis, James, 1725-1783
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1760
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

35. Short Introduction of Grammar Generally to be used: Compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latine tongue

Lily, William, 1468?-1522

Name: Lily, William, 1468?-1522
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1638
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

36. Spencerian key to practical penmanship

Spencer, H. C. (Henry Caleb)

Name: Spencer, H. C. (Henry Caleb)
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1866
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-5

37. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

More, Hannah, 1745-1833

Name: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1806
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-4

38. Theory and Art of Penmanship: a Manual for Teachers, Containing a Full Statement of Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's Celebrated Method of Teaching; Including Class-Drill, Writing in Concert, Criticism and Correction of Errors, Hints Towards Awakening Interest, Etc. : Together with a Complete Analysis and Synthesis of Script Letters, as Developed in Their Series of Writing-Books

Crosby and Ainsworth

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1868

39. Tunaikeion, or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerning Women

Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641

Name: Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1624
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-2

40. Universal Penman

Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?

Name: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1741
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-2

41. Very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman

Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540

Name: Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1557
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-2

42. Vindication of the Rights of Women

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

Name: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1792
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-3

43. Writing Tables with a Kalender for xxiiii. yeeres, with sundry necessarye rules

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1583
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-1

44. Young Lady's Accidence, or, A short and easy introduction to English grammar