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B3143. Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting
Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting. 2009. 225pp. 7x8.5" Hardcover
Steeped in the Palmer Method of Handwriting she learned in Catholic school, Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed "penmanship nut" who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So when she discovered that schools today forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called keyboarding, it gave her pause: "There is a widespread belief that, in a digital world, forming letters on paper with a pen is pointless and obsolete," she says, "and anyone who thinks otherwise is right up there with folks who still have fallout shelters in their backyards."
Florey tackles the importance of writing by hand and its place in our increasingly electronic society in this fascinating exploration of the history of handwriting. Weaving together the evolution of writing implements and scripts, pen-collecting societies, the golden age of American penmanship, the growth in popularity of handwriting analysis, and the many aficionados who still prefer scribbling on paper to tapping on keys, she asks the question: Is writing by hand really no longer necessary in today’s busy world?
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B2371. Handwriting:Everyone's Art/Wilcox et al.
Handwriting: Everyone’s Art.
Edited by Timothy Wilcox and Ewan Clayton. 1999. 8.5" x 11". 63pp. Paper.
Preface by Timothy Wildox, History of Learning to Write, Ewan Clayton; Two Journals, Sally Teague; Italic Handwriting in the 20th Century, John Hash; Handwriting: Everyone’s Art, Ewan Clayton. Plates from the exhibition: Fairbank, Irene Wellington, John Skelton, David Howells,
Hermann Zapf,Ann Hechle, Donald Jackson, Stan Knight, David Mekelburg,Gerald Fleuss, Lindsay Castell, Jean Larcher, Jovica Veljovic. 63 illus., 10 in color.
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B1253. Write Now/Getty & Dubay
Write Now
By Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty. 2005. 96pp. 8.5"x11". Paper.
A self teaching manual for a monoline italic based handwriting. Highly recommended. Second edition.
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B368. Ames Compendium of Practical.../Ames
Ames Compendium of Practical & Ornamental Penmanship By Daniel T.Ames. 1883. Reprint 1978. 60pp. 8.5"x11". Paper.
Eight pages of good instruction on writing and letterforms
(Spencerian & copperplate) are followed by examples and alphabets. Flourishing (birds, feathers, etc.) is next, followed by pages of 19th century ornamental lettering of all sorts. If you are interested in pointed pen writing, this book is a must buy.
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B2470. Elegant Hand/Henning
An Elegant Hand: The Golden Age of American Penmanship and Calligraphy
By William E.Henning. Edited by Paul Melzer. 2002. 320pp. 8-1/2"x11". Hardcover. Retail Price $59.95.
Chronicles the history of the Golden Age of American penmanship, guiding the reader through the lives and careers of important American penmen beginning with Platt Rogers, Spencer, the Father of American Handwriting and Spencer’s gifted student, George A. Gaskell, whose books and periodicals reached the hundreds of thousands of
students throughout the second half of the 1800s.
Illustrated with more than 400 examples, most from
original specimens.
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B2476. FW Tamblyn's Home Instructor Penmanship
FW Tamblyns’s Home Instructor in Penmanship
F.W. Tamblyn. 2001. (Reprint of the 7th ed, 1938). 174pp. 8.5"x5.25". Spiral.
80 pages of instruction on basic script starting with holding the pen and positioning the paper, followed by pages of exercises, letterforms, words, and sentences to copy. Then 33 pages on Artistic Writing (Spencerian) -- instruction on adding the stresses to capitals and appropriate lowercase letters. Smaller sections on Engravers Script, broadedged
alphabets, off hand flourishing, engrossing and diplomas. A great reprint. A highly recommended manual.
The current printing has a lighter cover.
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B1816. Learning to Write Spencerian/Sull
Learning to Write Spencerian Script
By Michael Sull & Debra Sull. 1993. 75pp. 6.75" x 8.5". Paper.
An instructional manual for Spencerian covering equipment
and tools, practice, and extensive instruction on the individual letters. This book gives the main instructional material from Volume I of Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship, which is no longer available.
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DVD12. Learning to Write Spencerian Script DVD
Learning to Write Spencerian Script
By Michael Sull. DVD.
A 60 minute instructional video by the author of the
comprehensive text of the same title. First he gives a brief history of the hand and then gives letter by letter instruction.
All our DVD’s are made to run on USA and Canada machines. If you live outside North America, you should check with the manual for your machine to see if it can play NTSC format DVD’s. If your DVD player can’t play our DVD’s, your computer may be able to.
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B2463. Spencerian Practice Pack/Sull
Michael Sull's Spencerian Practice Set
The traditional method for students to learn Spencerian Script was known as the copybook format, where a model line of Spencerian penmanship was printed at the top of a sheet with blank lines underneath for the student to practice her/his own writing.
In this set by Michael Sull, the 29 printed sheets feature 100 model lines of penmanship encompassing the lowercase letters, capitals, words, sentences, and over 700 blank lines for your writing. The set also includes 5 blank practice sheets each for two sizes of script (10 total), with instructions.
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B305. Theory of the Spencerian System...
Theory of the Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship in Nine Easy Lessons. (1875) 1985. 52 page instruction booklet and five 24 pp practice booklets. 8.5" x 7".
Facsimile of an old primer teaching the Spencerian hand in question and answer format. Originally intended for elementary school students, this method is useful for beginners of all ages.
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