Calligraphy's flowering, decay & restauration : with hints for its wider use today

by Paul Standard

Paperback, 1978

Status

Available

Call number

Z250.5.S4

Tags

nonfiction, history of writing, calligraphy, Italic hand, handwriting, penmanship

Genres

Collections

Bibliognost, καλλιγραφία

Publication

New York: Pentalic Corporation, 1978.

Description

This classic essay, a most provocative work by one of the foremost exponents of beautiful letters, includes marginal glosses written by the great calligrapher, Ray DaBoll.

Subjects

Penmanship
Script type

Language

English

Physical description

36 p.; 23 cm

Copy notes

An expansion of two articles which appeared in the Inland printer in 1944. cf. p. [38].
Reprint of 1947 edition published by Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago.

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