Description
Prentice-Hall, Published 1984. Plastic comb binding, 141 pp.; 28 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated throughout with calligraphic exemplars, practice guidelines, and black-and-white drawings.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy cream illustrated covers show light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and mild shelf wear. Plastic comb binding is sound. Inscribed and signed by the author in red ink, in her calligraphic hand, on the dedication page. Otherwise unmarked. Self-instruction workbook for italic calligraphy and chancery cursive by Long Beach calligrapher Elizabeth Lucas, past President of the Society for Calligraphy, covering materials, pen angles, guidelines, capital and lower case letterforms, flourishing, layout, and graded exercises and projects. Endpapers and page 89 reproduce envelope art addressed to the author by fellow calligraphers. Contents: Introduction; Historical Development; Basic Materials List; Other Materials Commonly Used; Suppliers of Fine Art Materials; Comparison of Print, Commercial Cursive and Italic Styles; Getting Your Pen to Start; The Meaning of Guidelines; Making Your Own Guidelines; Understanding and Using Proper Pen Angles; Practice with Pen Angles and Making Border Designs; Relative Widths of Italic Capital Letters; Letter Slant; Stroking Sequences of Capitals; Monoline Capitals; Stroking Sequences for Monoline Capitals; Monoline Capitals Showing Relative Widths; Practice Grid for Monoline Capitals; 20 mm Monoline Capitals Showing Relative Widths; B4 Italic Capitals Showing Relative Widths; Italic B4 Exemplar Sheet; Word Practice Using Several Nibs; Centering Words or Lines of Writing; Spacing; Lower Case Italic Letterforms; Flourished Letterforms; Layout and Design Techniques; Possible Layout Designs; Italic Cursive Handwriting; Variations of Form and Samples of Work; Exercises; Projects; Additional Project Ideas; Book List; Glossary of Terms; Guideline Section.