chirography

The early registers still exist in Stationers' Hall, near Paternoster Row, London, in quaint and almost undecipherable chirography, and some of them have been reissued in facsimile.

I have been poring over his old-time chirography, clear-cut and beautiful as copper-plate.

The writing as an example of the chirography of the century is of interest.

My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography.

We shall not object to your chirography, so you must practise it often, and let me hear of your progress and well-doing.