Handwriting of the Twentieth Century
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781841501789
Subjects: Palaeography (history of writing); 20th century; Education; Education / Teaching; General; Techniques - Calligraphy; Education / General; History
Description: "As letter-writing has fallen by the wayside, the art of lavish yet legible handwriting is no longer being taught to schoolchildren or employed in daily life - much to the dismay of those who receive hastily scrawled love notes or try to decipher a doctor's prescription. In an age when script manuals for students are disappearing at a rapid rate and writing samples are ephemeral, Rosemary Sassoon's Handwriting of the Twentieth Century provides the first historical record of teaching the skill of writing in the last 100 years."--book jacket.