Cambridge: University Press, 1969. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 152 pages. First edition. Over 60 illustrations. Illustrated. Jacket price clipped. READ MORE about VISIBLE WORDS, A STUDY OF INSCRIPTIONS IN AND AS BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART
Price: $38.00 Order nr. 42123
Cambridge: University Press, 1969. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 152 pages. First edition. Over 60 illustrations. Illustrated. Jacket price clipped and with chipping around edges with small pieces missing. READ MORE about VISIBLE WORDS, A STUDY OF INSCRIPTIONS IN AND AS BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 121587
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1950. 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120 pages. First edition in English. With many tipped-in plates in full color. One of the more important books on illuminated lettering. Dust jacket worn with pieces missing. Foxing to gutters of pastedowns / endpapers. READ MORE about THE DECORATED LETTER, FROM THE VIIITH TO THE XIITH CENTURY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 32433
Paris: Éditions du Chene, 1949. 4to. parchment covers, dust jacket. 120 pages. Reprint of the 1943 first edition. With many tipped-in plates in full color. One of the more important books on illuminated lettering. Jacket chipped and soiled with tears. Covers slightly bowed. Name in ink along top edge of front free endpaper. READ MORE about LETTRE ORNEE, DANS LES MANUSCRITS DU XVIIIe
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 43754
Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1903. large 12mo. cloth. (vii), 153, (7) pages. Second edition. Explores the history of writing from antiquity to the middle ages. With 37 illustrations, a bibliography. Issued as part of the series Aus Natur und Geisteswelt: Sammlung wissenschaftlich-gemeinverstandlicher Darstellungen aus allen gebieten des Wissens. READ MORE about SCHRIFT-UND BUCHWESEN IN ALTER UND NEUER ZEIT
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 59661
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 365 pages. First edition, second printing. From the very scarce first printing in English done in Israel. This work is one of the most definitive books written on the origin and development of the Hebrew Script. Breaking through almost all fences within which Hebrew paleography has been confined, this work starts at the beginning, forges through the Second Temple period, and deals with all..... READ MORE about THE BOOK OF HEBREW SCRIPT: HISTORY, PALAEOGRAPHY, SCRIPT STYLES, CALLIGRAPHY & DESIGN
Price: $69.95 Order nr. 71692
London: Sotheby & Co., 1975. 4to. boards. 96 pages followed by 41 plates. Auction catalogue of this magnificent collection of 34 manuscripts dating from the earliest times to the 16th century. Prices realized loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY - ABBEY 9TH
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 172
Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1980. oblong 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. (18) pages. Limited to 125 copies printed by Wesley B. Tanner at the Arif Press on dampened T. Edmonds paper. The 25th book of the press. Reprints part of Johnston's text from FORMAL PENMANSHIP AND OTHER PAPERS. With calligraphy by Barbara Wiley Bash. READ MORE about FORMAL PENMANSHIP DEFINED BY THE THING
Price: $42.50 Order nr. 11919
Cologny-Geneve: Foundation Martin Bodmer, 1977. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 104, (2) pages. First edition. List of autographed manuscripts from the collection of Martin Bodmer at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Separated into British writers, American writers, Miscellanea, and John Augustine Daly. Several facsimile of manuscripts interspersed. Indexed. READ MORE about ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BODMERIANA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 56044
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. cloth. x, 316 pages. First edition. There are seventeen illustrations reproducing letters of Thackeray, Sterne, Bronte, Tennyson, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Darwin and others. Inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about MEDITATIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 96628
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 316 pages. First edition. There are seventeen illustrations reproducing letters of Thackeray, Sterne, Bronte, Tennyson, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Darwin and others. Covers age darkened and with small crack along front hinge at top. READ MORE about MEDITATIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 119612
2 volumes.
New York: Dover, 1981. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiii,129 pages and 129 plates; ix, 130 pages and 130 plates, 263-311 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. Reproductions of manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library with accompanying text for each plate that concentrates on the historical aspects of the document. Light wear along edges. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS SERIES I, FROM 800-1800 AND SERIES II, FROM 1800-1914
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 102678
New York: Dover, (1981). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 311 pages. First edition. Reproductions of manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library with accompanying text for each plate that concentrates on the historical aspects of the document. Checklist by Herbert Cahoon. Introduction by Charles Ryskamp. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS SERIES II, FROM 1800-1914
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 64529
Sponsored by The Guild of Book Workers.
New York: The Guild of Book Workers, (1959). 8vo. paper wrappers. (28) pages. Sponsored by The Guild of Book Workers. One page introduction by Laura Young. Contains descriptions of the books in the exhibition, incluindg 24 black-and-white photographs. Covers soiled. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF HAND BOOKBINDING, CASEMAKING, RESTORATION CALLIGRAPHY & ILLUMINATION, AND...
Price: $24.00 save 20% $19.20 Order nr. 11966
N.P. n.p., n.d., but 1994. 4to. Loose in portfolio. Six prints of scripts, signed "94 Briom." READ MORE about BRIOM SCRIPT: SIX UNNUMBERED PRINTS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 121552
Zurich: Hellmut Schumann, n.d. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38 pages, followed by 10 pages of plates. A sale catalogue, Number 511 of this firm. Sixty-nine items, all fully described, including books on calligraphy, sample leaves, specimens of ornamental book letters and more. Priced in Swiss Francs. READ MORE about THE ART OF ORNAMENT AND WRITING: WRITING MASTER BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 47894
New York: Society of Scribes, 1978. 8vo. spiral bound with stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Only the 1978 calander. The week's schedule appears on one side with a sample of fine writing on the other: some are quotations or passages, some are simply alphabets. READ MORE about CALLIGRAPHER'S ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 79666
Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1970. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Well-illustrated. Describes 104 items. READ MORE about THE CALLIGRAPHIC STATEMENT, AN EXHIBITION OF WESTERN AND EASTERN CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING FROM...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 6234
Norman, OK: Calligraphy Review, 1992. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Winter 1992, Volume Nine, Number Two. Includes feature articles and columns. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about CALLIGRAPHY REVIEW
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134273
(Los Angeles: Prince Stern Sloan), n.d. square 4to. printed paper-covered boards with tray holding brush set and inks. Book and brush/paint set still in shrink wrap. From the back cover: " The first 48 pages of the book offer an introduction to this beautiful subject with clear, full-color illustrations. The last 32 pages are of fine quality Chinese paper with which to begin Chinese painting." Quite attractive. READ MORE about CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 91358
12 volumes.
London, England: Society of Scribes and Illuminators, 1922-68. various. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 12 volumes. A collection of items published by the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. Includes ten exhibition catalogues, a 1943 membership list, and the library list and rules. From the collection of Dorothy Hutton who was often mentioned as an exhibitor in the exhibition catalogues. Many items with lightly soiled covers and chipped at edges. Many with pencil and ink..... READ MORE about Collection of publications of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 124218
London: Trefoil Publications, (1990). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 168 pages. First paperback edition. A catalogue which is a selection of work which represents the calligraphy and lettering of 124 scribes and letterers from 12 countries. The examples represent works on paper, vellum, fabric, slate, stone and glass and are done with brush, pen and chisel, with illustrations in color and black and white. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY, MODERN SCRIBES AND LETTERING ARTISTS II
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 60524
With text by George L. Harding, Roby Wentz, and Ray Nash.
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1974. small 4to. cloth. (xviii) page followed by 7 leaves of facsimile. With text by George L. Harding, Roby Wentz, and Ray Nash. Limited to 250 copies printed by Ward Ritchie for the Zamorano Club. A facsimile of this early 19th century copybook prepared by Zamorano for his friend Don Ignacio Coronel, Los Angeles' first school teacher. READ MORE about A COPYBOOK FROM THE HAND OF AGUSTIN V. ZAMORANO
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 33053
Baltimore: Peabody Institute Library, 1959. 4to. stapled paper wrappers. 28 leaves. Reproduced from typesript. No illustrations but much of interest in the textual comments. Worn along edges. READ MORE about AN EXHIBITION OF CALLIGRAPHY & ILLUMINATION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 17096
London: The Society of Scribes and Illumators, 1956. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Exhibition of 137 calligraphic works sponsored by the Society, October-November 1956. List of officers and members. Advertisements. Cockerell designed and produced the marbled paper covers. Wrappers lightly soiled. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF CALLIGRAPHY LETTERING & ILLUMINATING, 1956
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 115352
