Written for the complete beginner, Teach Yourself Calligraphy shows the reader how to use calligraphy in a wide range of projects. It covers everything a novice needs to know to become confident at the craft, including the four basic calligraphy styles, and techniques such as embossing, simple bookbinding, rubber-stamp making, and stenciling. Detailed diagrams and color illustrations make the projects clear and simple to follow. The attractive, large-page format allows the book to stay open for hands-free practice, making this guide ideal for new calligraphers.

Teach Yourself Calligraphy (Teach Yourself Series)

Arts & Photography

Lovett,Patricia

Other Media

McGraw=Hill

Introduces calligraphy and other artistic uses of the letters of the alphabet, and discusses using these techniques in educational programs

Creating Letterforms: Calligraphy and Lettering for Beginners

Sassoon,Rosemary

Thames&Hudson

Fourteen historical manuscripts, supported by other manuscript examples, are used to explore fifteen selected writing styles. Dr Michelle P. Brown analyses the production of the manuscripts, setting them in their historical context and relating them to the people who produced them. Patricia Lovett uses the manuscripts to analyse the letter-forms in detail, and then gives clear guidance on how to write the letters. Each section includes a calligraphic interpretation of the historic letter-form.
This book is the first to put the needs of the historian and the scribe at the forefront. Large-scale examples of the manuscripts are included for letter analysis, with, in most instances, a full page colour reproduction of a page from the same manuscript alongside. Other selected manuscripts with clear letter-forms show the development of that alphabet style throughout the periods under consideration. A whole page is devoted to exemplar letters of each alphabet style, with clear guidelines on how the letters are formed, including punctuation marks, an ampersand (or et ligature) and numerals. Each section includes a specially created piece of modern calligraphy, showing how the hand can be used today.

The Historical Source Book for Scribes

Reference

Brown, Michelle P.

Words, Language & Grammar

The British Library

About the Author\nPatricia Lovett is a professional calligrapher and illuminator and works from her studio at Kent. She has written a number of books on calligraphy and illumination, and teaches and lectures all over the world. She was awarded the MBE for services to heritage crafts and calligraphy, and is vice-chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and patron of the Lettering and Commemorative Arts Trust.\nRanging from the Middle Ages, when beautiful calligraphy was a way of celebrating the divine, to the renaissance of the art form by William Morris, to the modern school of calligraphers following in the wake of master typographer Edward Johnston, Patricia Lovett charts the development of calligraphy through the history of European manuscripts. A renowned expert on the history of the form as well as a fine calligrapher herself, she writes—uniquely—from a practitioner's point of view. Large-scale full-color reproductions enable the reader to see the fine detail of each manuscript, and to understand more clearly than ever before the painstaking craft and great artistic skill that were necessary to create these strikingly beautiful pieces of writing.

The Art & History of Calligraphy

History & Criticism

British Library Publishing

Ranging from the Middle Ages, when beautiful calligraphy was a way of celebrating the divine, to the renaissance of the art form by William Morris, to the modern school of calligraphers following in the wake of master typographer Edward Johnston, Patricia Lovett charts the development of calligraphy through the history of European manuscripts. A renowned expert on the history of the form as well as a fine calligrapher herself, she writes—uniquely—from a practitioner’s point of view. Large-scale full-color reproductions enable the reader to see the fine detail of each manuscript, and to understand more clearly than ever before the painstaking craft and great artistic skill that were necessary to create these strikingly beautiful pieces of writing.

The Art and History of Calligraphy

The Macclesfield Alphabet Book is an exquisitely beautiful 15th-century English 'pattern' book, probably used by artists for the transmission of ideas to assistants, or as a sample book to show potential customers. Only a handful of such books survive. The manuscript contains 14 different types of decorative alphabets. These include an alphabet of decorative initials with faces; foliate alphabets; a zoomorphic alphabet of initials, and alphabets in Gothic script. In addition there are large colored anthropomorphic initials modeled after 15th-century woodcuts or engravings, as well as two sets of different types of borders, some of which are fully illuminated in colors and gold. The manuscript was acquired by the British Library in 2009. It had been in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield since about 1750, and until recently its existence was completely unknown.

The Macclesfield Alphabet Book: A Facsimile

DE HAMEL, CHRISTOPHER

British Library

Starting Lettering (Usborne First Skills)

STARTING LETTERING, USBORNE FIRST SKILLS

Politics & Social Sciences

WATT, FIONA

Sociology

EDC Pub.]

Explains the basic techniques and equipment used in painting, drawing and lettering.

The Usborne Book of Drawing, Painting and Lettering

Children's Books

Claybourne,Anna

Arts, Music & Photography

The Historical Sourcebook for Scribes

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Looks at the history of calligraphy and illumination of books and manuscripts along with instructions for a variety of projects.

Calligraphy and Illumination: A History and Practical Guide

Harry N. Abrams

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