These included files are called copybooks or s. VIEW buffers are essentially records, C structures, or COBOL copybooks. The illustrations were added by three different painters, all of whom used iconographic copybooks. Copperplate engraving influenced handwriting as it allowed penmanship copybooks to be more widely printed. Because the choice of copybooks would decide the style people write in. Still Edward Crocker began publishing his copybooks 40 years before the aforementioned. However, copybooks only became commonplace in England with the invention of copperplate engraving. Copybooks can help children practice different font of handwriting and build their own style. In England, Edward Cocker had been publishing copybooks based upon French ' in the 1640s.