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George Shelley

English writing master, 1666 (?)-1736 (?).

Author/editor of The Penmans Magazine. Author of Natural Writing in all the Hands, with Variety of Ornament (1709) and Alphabets in All the Hands (1715).

In 1730, he wrote several pages for Bickham's Universal Penman. English writing masters including George Bickham, George Shelley and George Snell helped to propagate Round Hand's popularity, so that by the mid-18th century the Round Hand style had spread across Europe and crossed the Atlantic to North America. The typefaces Snell Roundhand and Kuenstler Script are based on this style of handwriting. The famous Shelley Script is named after him. Linotype's version, also called Shelley Script, was implemented by Matthew Carter in 1972 at Letraset and was split into Allegro, Andante and Volante styles. The Bitstream "copy" is called English 111.

Sample of a copperplate alphabet done in London in 1709.

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file name: G Shelley Copperplate London 1709


file name: G Shelley Copperplate London 1709b


file name: George Shelley Alphabetsin Allthe Hands French Cannon 1715


file name: Adobe Shelley Script 2007 102906


file name: Adobe Shelley Script 2007


file name: Linotype Shelley Script 2000


file name: George Shelley Shelley Script Linotype


file name: Linotype Kuenstler Script 2000


file name: Adobe Kuenstler Script 2000 102965


file name: Adobe Kuenstler Script 2000


file name: Matthew Carter Bitstream English111 1972 126512


file name: Matthew Carter Bitstream English111 1972 126513


file name: Matthew Carter Bitstream English111 1972 126513b


file name: Matthew Carter Bitstream English111 1972 126514


file name: Bitstream English111 2000


file name: George Shelley English111 bitstream


file name: Shelley Script German Invitation 2015


file name: Tilde English111 2007







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