Order Nr. 136148 THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON. Ambrose Heal.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.

THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.

(ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS 1570-1800).
  • Cambridge: University Press, 1931.
  • large 4to
  • Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards, Top edges gilt, others untrimmed.
  • xl, 226 pages, 82 plates (i.e. frontis. + 23 portraits, 93 collotypes on 58 plates)

Price: $850.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 136148

First Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the author. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"). A very small abrasion at tail of spine. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with brown paper. Text, plates, and binding are in splendid state; a lovely copy. Very good.

An essential reference work on the history of English writing manuals -- still unsurpassed. Ours is copy 146 and is preserved in very fresh, unmarked condition.

This original edition is a fine specimen of Cambridge bookmaking and is much preferred over the ugly facsimile reprint (Olms, 1962) which disgraced the beauty of the 23 portraits of the writing-masters and the 58 plates of their copy-books and trade-cards (some of the plates present more than one example). The value of the present volume lies not only in the extensive biographies of the writing-masters, and the extremely detailed bibliographical descriptions of their work, but in Heal's long and insightful Preface, and Stanley Morison's discourse into "The Development of Handwriting."

"Mr. Heal has, in this scholarly and important book, proved his contention that his subject [English Writing-Masters] is of deep interest. Moreover, his admirable work is arranged in a manner very convenient for reference. It should prove of great value to students, and have some influence in increasing their number." (Review in "The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs," Vol. 61, No. 356 [Nov., 1932], pp. 239-240).

This original edition is uncommon on the market; the last copy to appear at auction was Graham Pollard's which sold in 2013 at Bonham's London. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.