A Set of Eight Charles Paillasson's L'Art d'Ecrire Plates Framed

A Wonderful Set Of Eight Plates from Charles Paillasson's L'Art d'Ecrire all individually framed c1763 with Frenchman Aubin engraver.

Charles Paillasson's celebrated handwriting manual *L'Art d'Ecrire* was originally published in 1763 as part of Diderot and D'Alembert's *Encyclopédie*, with plates engraved in 1760 . 

Charles Paillasson was born in 1718, son of the master writer Jean-Jacques Paillasson, who died in 1754 . He was a student of Louis Rossignol , and taught his art in a boarding school in Clamart from 1738 . He was made a master of the Community of Master Writers onNovember 18, 1756. In 1754 he lived in Paris on rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois.

Anxious to enhance the prestige of calligraphy in France, he was part of several Parisian academies supporting this cause and was among those who offered, in 1763 and 1767 , gifts in calligraphy to Louis XV . In 1767, he was said to be a sworn writer expert and a former professor of the Royal Academy of Writing . In 1776 he was already a writer in the king's cabinet, and in 1780 he was appointed First Secretary of the King 's Cabinet . In 1779, he was a founding member of the Academic Writing Office  and was still a member in 1789 , the year of his death.

Aubin was active 1740/70 and was a printmaker and lettering engraver 

Provenance: The Property of a Country House, England from family Flanders, Belgium