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Since 1981 John Neal, Bookseller has supplied calligraphers, lettering artists, illuminators, bookbinders, type and papercraft enthusiasts worldwide with books, tools, and materials. We also publish Letter Arts Review, a full color journal on the lettering arts, and Bound & Lettered, a quarterly magazine on making books and making letters.
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Welcome to our web store! We offer a full range of calligraphy supplies, calligraphy books, bookbinding supplies, bookbinding tools, instructional manuals, gilding supplies, inks, pens, pen points, nibs, gouache, gifts, etc... Please come in and explore. Please use the contact information at the bottom of this page to let us know of any problems you encounter.
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Download or request our new Spring 2008 catalog!
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Featured Products
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S489. Book Press: Small
Book & Paper Press
For books/papers up to 8.5"x11". Retail Price $275
While this was designed as a paper press it makes an
excellent book press at an affordable cost.Delivers 2000 lbs of pressure. This high quality press is made of Baltic birch plywood with a professional finish. Easily moved from one location to another. Ships fully assembled, maintenance free. For paper makers: Paper dried slowly under pressure yields a smoother, flatter, harder surface and is less likely to feather ink.
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B2769. Foundations of Calligraphy
Foundations of Calligraphy
By Sheila Waters. 2006. 126pp. 9"x11.25". Concealed spiral binding $35.00
The second printing of Foundations was completed in May 2008.
Sheila Waters’ long awaited Foundations of Calligraphy is now available! Sheila Waters is not only a master scribe, but a master teacher. She has made both her life’s work. For over 20 years of summer workshops, she took scribes through their paces for up to six weeks of in-depth instruction in letterforms (historical and modern) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Students came as far away as Australia and Japan for these intensive classes. Throughout the rest of the year she taught and continues to teach many weekend workshops sponsored by calligraphy guilds throughout the USA and Canada. She is also a frequent instructor at the international calligraphy conference held each summer.
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B2982. John Stevens: Calligraphy, Design, Lettering Art
Shipping Early 2009.
B2982. John Stevens: Calligraphy, Design, Lettering Art. 2008. Approx. 160pp. 2008. 8.5"x11".Hardcover Pre-publication price $29.95
A profusely illustrated, full color retrospective of John Stevens' work with letterforms. Includes calligraphy and lettering -- artworks, personal work, experimental work, commissioned work -- as well as graphic work and type design. His body of work spans paper to stone, books to walls, to type and the digital realm.
In the text, John presents his approach to a design or work, his thoughts on letterforms, and continues with a discussion on tools, teaching, design and writing in general. Using his body of work as example, he makes the case that barriers between fine arts and graphic arts are mostly irrelevant.
Advance pre-paid orders receive free shipping (USA only) and prepublication price. To pre-pay with a credit card, provide your credit card information now. Your credit card will not be charged until May 30, 2008. Please make sure your card does not expire prior to 05/08. You may instead pre-pay by check. Please post-date your check for June30, 2008. Mail orders with check to PO Box 9986, Greensboro NC 27429. Books will ship Early 2009.
Foreign customers are charged shipping based on the cost of mailing.
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B2765. Books With Girth/Moote, Cherryl
Books With Girth
By Cherryl Moote. 2005. 220pp. 8-1/2" x 11". Paper.
This instruction manual covers books that have thick spines. Included are sewn books like coptic, longstitch and Secret Belgian Binding and many unsewn books like piano hinge, interlocking signatures, and the Spectabular book. The instructions are detailed and accompanied by clear diagrams, suggestions for variations and photos of the projects. The fifth in her bestselling series of instructional
manuals.
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