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The Practice of Letters
Philip Hofer, Founding Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in Houghton Library, amassed one of the great collections of early penmanship textbooks before his death in 1984. Becker's catalogue tells the story of this collection while amply illustrating the diversity and expressive power of the arts of the pen.
Luminario: An Introduction to the Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books.
Early Italian Writing-books
Printed in letterpress, with 24 duotone offset illustrations, this book examines the calligraphy of the sixteenth century from Arrighi to Ugo da Carpi, from Tagliente to Celebrino da Udine. As always with Morison, it is full of surprises, for this was Morison s particular passion, and in the area of stylistic comparisons and close observation, Morison was an undisputed master. This is, then, not only the last major Morison text to be published, but also one of fundamental importance, covering the most important period (and the most beautiful examples) in the history of calligraphy.
Arrighi's Running Hand
A leading American calligrapher uses a facsimile and translation of Arrighi's seminal work as the basis for a beginning text in Chancery cursive script
Holy Concord Within Sacred Walls
"This two-tiered approach makes the book of compelling interest to scholars of women's studies and Italian culture and history as well as to musicologists."--BOOK JACKET.
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64-
