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B039. Speedball Textbook: 23d Edition
The Speedball Textbook
Edited by Joanne Fink & Judy Kastin. 23rd ed. 1999. 96pp. 5.75"x8.5". Paper
A worthy manual with alphabets and examples by leading calligraphers. Includes monoline roman, edged pen roman (S.Waters), foundational (Winters), versals (Wronker), knotted letters (Van Stone), uncial, Carolingian (S.Waters), blackletter (Dunham), gothicized italic (Marcy Robinson,
Morentz), italic (Sheila & Julian Waters), copperplate (Caroline Paget Leake), Spencerian, Neuland, flat brush, pointed brush (Holliday & Reaves), italic handwriting, and Hebrew.Many examples of calligraphy and its uses. 16 full-color pages! For beginner through advanced.
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B1795. Teach Calligraphy? Who? Me?/Locke
Teach Calligraphy? Who? Me?: An Introduction to the Gentle Art of Calligraphy Instruction
By Betty J. Locke. 1993. 46pp. 8.5"x11". Paper.
For those beginning to teach calligraphy this book provides lots of practical information on kinds of classes, student needs and teaching strategies. It doesn’t give you lesson plans, but lets you know how to prepare them. It’s like having an experienced teacher to answer questions, give hints, etc.
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B2081. Uncommon Numbers: A Source Book...
Uncommon Numbers: A Source Book for Artists
Edited by Brenda Casey and Barbara Brandt. 1996. 64pp. 8.5"x5.5". Paperback.
This source book on numerals has exemplar pages, compositions, commercial pieces using numbers, and typefaces that could inspire calligraphic numerals. Provides much inspiration and source material to help you.
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B023. Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting / Reynolds
Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting
By Lloyd Reynolds. Paper.
Italic Calligraphy and Handwriting. Exercises & Text by Lloyd Reynolds. 1969. 5.5"x11". 58pp. Paper. A beginner's manual. Covers italic minuscules and majuscules and book design. Guidelines in back. Reynolds was an exceptional teacher. His manual is important reading.
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B041. Writing & Illuminating HARDCOVER
B041. Writing & Illuminating & Lettering.
By Edward Johnston. (1906) 436pp. 4.75"x7.25 ". Hardover, used.
An encyclopedic treatment By the man who revived calligraphy in the 20th century. Much in more recent books is derived from this one. Originally published in 1906 and kept in print through many editions and printings. Now out-of-print in hardcover.
Limited Supply. These are nice used copies. Edition varies.
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B1833. Calligraphy School/Goffe & Ravens
Calligraphy School: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Fine
Art of Lettering by Gaynor Goffe and Anna Ravenscroft
1994. 1976pp. 7.5"x9.25". Hardcover. Shelfworn copies.
This manual is rich in letters and color. It presents a basic script, roman capitals, formal italic, and cursive italic scripts. Proects and examples from master scribes complement the presentation. It contains more than 350 illustrations - full color throughout! Gaynor is a left-handed calligrapher and a craft member of the SSI. Out-of-print in the USA. We have located a few copies. All the dustjackes are shelf worn, some copies have bumped corners.
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B2652. Calligraphy by Byron Macdonald
Calligraphy: The Art of Lettering with the Broad Pen
By Byron J. Macdonald
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B2921. Creating Letterforms/Sasson
Creating Letterforms: Calligraphy and Lettering for Beginners
By Rosemary Sassoon and Patricia Lovett. 1992. 96pp. 7"x10". Paper $15.95 SALE
The first section is on classic calligraphy with exemplar alphabets for Uncials, Versals, Round hand, Blackletter, & italic and a series of projects. The second section is on learning about letterforms: how tools affect form, how letterform can suggest meaning, letter as pattern, and monograms. The last section is on teaching lettering in the schools.
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B3011. First Steps Series: Calligraphy
First Steps Series: Calligraphy
By Don Marsh. 128pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover $19.95
An introductory course in italic. Comparative
charts cover the pros and cons of different dip pens,
fountain pens,writing tools,waterproof and nonwaterproof
inks and erasers. Covers Italic minuscule,
a simple Roman, and Italic capitals and Swash
capitals. Includes a section of projects.
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B2029-PB. Step-by-Step Calligraphy/Hufton
Step-by- Step Calligraphy: A Complete Guide with
Creative Projects
By Susan Hufton. 1995. 144pp. 10.75" x 10.75". Paper.
Out-of-print.
LIMITED STOCK OF NICE CONDITION USED COPIES.
A wonderful book filled with full color photography, full color reproductions, and fine exemplars. Covers letterforms: skeleton letters (roman caps and lowercase), Roman capitals, foundational, italic, flourished italic, uncial, versals, built up capitals. A manuscript reproduction is provided for each alphabet. Next, layout,margins, letter weight and
interlinear spacing are presented. Then step-bystep
instructions for a series of projects. Recommended by Sheila Waters, Ann Hechle, Annie Cicale, John Stevens and John Neal, Bookseller.
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