Add this copy of Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique to cart. $38.01, fair condition, Sold by M Godding Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Devizes, WILTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1980 by Allanheld & Schram.
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Fair. Acceptable Jacket. Size: 10x10x1; A very good condition book, bit a one inch corner of the back board has mold marks, no longr active, thus acceptable. The jacket is well worn and repaired. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
Add this copy of Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique to cart. $45.38, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1980 by Allanheld & Schram.
Add this copy of Medieval Calligraphy, Its History and Technique to cart. $52.50, very good condition, Sold by DBookmahn's Used & Rare Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Burke, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Allanheld & Schram.
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Very Good+ in Very Good(-) jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 198 pages. Foreword by Paul Freeman. 145 monochrome facsimiles; illustrations and calligraphy by the author. Clean.
This highly versatile book begins with some of the terminology of historical calligraphy, a look at the life of a scribe, and a humorous aside on the calligrapher's demon, Titivillus (who caused scribes to make errors). The next fifty-five pages provide an overview of the development of Western writing, primarily from Roman times to the end of the Medieval period, richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs. In the heart of the book, Drogin provides a detailed look at a set of twelve scripts variously used between the first and fifteenth centuries. Each script's presentation contains a set of photographic examples from historical documents and Drogin's analysis of how the letter forms could have been constructed with a broad-edged pen. The book closes with sections on page layout, writing medieval numbers, materials and resources, and references. Had the photography been in color, the book would have been glorious. As it is, the generous supply of black-and-white photos of centuries of documents is still a feast for the eye and mind. And if you've ever wondered why "A" and "a" (or "D"/"d" or "E"/"e") are the same letter, this book will help you understand how that came to be. (The reader/calligrapher/student who wants to go further would do well to consider "Historical Scripts" by Stan Knight.)
