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John Ayres | British calligrapher | Britannica
Other articles where John Ayres is discussed: calligraphy: Writing manuals and copybooks (16th to 18th century): 1680) by John Ayres; he identifies “bastard Italians” as “round-hands,” and his alphabets are nearly exact copies of Barbedor’s italienne bastarde. In A Tutor to Penmanship (1697/98), Ayres praises Materot, van den Velde, and Barbedor as great penmen who revived and disseminated the art of writing. Ayres…
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