Description
Faber and Faber, Published 1956. Hardcover, 252 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition; illustrated with 50 plates and 52 text figures.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Small nick and fraying to cloth at top corner of spine; mild shelf wear with a hint of color loss along edges. Binding tight. Previous owner's name, address, and date (1963) on front free endpaper; endpaper mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked. Ten technical essays on the calligrapher's craft, prepared for the Society of Scribes and Illuminators as a memorial to Edward Johnston and Colonel J. C. H. Crosland by pupils and followers of Johnston. Covers pens and inks, pigments and media, skins and papers, gilding, the design of formal scripts and manuscript books, heraldry in illuminated manuscripts, cursive handwriting, and the binding of manuscripts. A standard reference for calligraphers, illuminators, and book artists. Contents: Pens, Pencils, Brushes, Knives (William Bishop); Pigments and Media (Dorothy Hutton); Ink (M. Therese Fisher); Skins, Papers, Pounces (Margaret L. Hodgson); Gilding (Irene Base); The Design of Formal Scripts (John Woodcock); The Design of Manuscript Books and Inscriptions (M. C. Oliver); Heraldry in Illuminated Manuscripts (William M. Gardner); Cursive Handwriting (Alfred Fairbank); The Binding of Manuscripts (Sydney M. Cockerell); appendices on the development of illumination, illumination and decoration, and simple binding; bibliography; index.