Writing & illuminating, & lettering
By: by Edward Johnston ; with diagrams and illustrations by the author and Noel Rooke.
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black; Taplinger; A&C Black
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 439
Copyright date: 1977
Subjects: Lettering.; Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Notes: Reprint of: London : Pitman, 1906.
"Reprinted 1983 by A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd. Published simultaneously in the USA by Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. Originally published in Great Britain 1906 by Pitman Publishing Ltd." - T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Edward Johnston : A biographical note / Noel Rooke; title: Editor's preface; title: Author's preface; title: Addenda & corrigenda; title: Part 1 : Writing & illuminating.; title: The development of writing; title: Acquiring a formal hand : (1) tools; title: Acquiring a formal hand : (2) methods; title: Acquiring a formal hand : (3) models; title: Acquiring a formal hand : (4) practice; title: Manuscript books; title: Versal letters & coloured capitals; title: Black & red; title: Laying & burnishing gold; title: The use of gold & colours in initial letters & simple illumination; title: A theory of illumination; title: The development of illumination; title: "Design" in illumination; title: Part 2 : Lettering.; title: Good lettering : some methods of construction & arrangement; title: The Roman alphabet & its derivatives; title: Appendixes.; title: Special subjects; title: Inscriptions in stone / A.E.R. Gill; title: Copy of letter from Edward Johnston to Colonel Crosland