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The wife of the late CPS member Augusto Fiorani kindly donated all his calligraphy books to the Cinque Ports Scribes. These are held as a separate library by Els van den Steen and may also be borrowed by members. Please contact Els or a committee member

Diary 2012
Library

Advanced Calligraphy Techniques – Ideas in Action

 

Diana Hoare

Alphabet and Elements of Lettering, The 

 

Frederic W. Goudy

Alphabet at Work

 

William Gardner

Anatomy of Letters, The

 

Charles Pearce

Annals of Printing

 

W T Berry & H E Poole

Art of Calligraphy, The

 

Marie Angel

Art of Colour Calligraphy, The

 

Mary Noble & Adrian Waddington

Art of Fine Lettering, The

 

Sister Michaeline Lesiak    

Art of Illuminated Lettering & Heraldry, The

 

Barbara Bundy

Art of Limming, The 

 

Pub: SSI

Artist & Alphabet; 20th Century Calligraphy & Letter Art in America    

 

 

Beautiful Alphabet, The

 

Johannes Muess

Beginner’s Guide to Calligraphy 

 

Janet Mehigan & Mary Noble

Beyond Words – exhibition catalogue

 

University of Sunderland

Black Letter Primer, an Introduction to Gothic Alphabets

 

Paul Shaw

Book Illumination in the Middle Ages

 

Otto Pacht

Book of Formal Scripts, A

 

John Woodcock

Book of Kells, The

 

Bernard Meehan

Book of Scripts, A x 2 (1960 & 1977)

 

Alfred Fairbank

Books, Boxes and Portfolios

 

Franz Zeier

Brush Lettering :  (An Instructional Manual in Western Brush Calligraphy)

 

Marilyn Reaves & Eliza Schulte

Calligrapher’s Bible, The

 

David Harris

Calligrapher’s Dictionary, The

 

Rose Folsom

Calligraphy – easel does it

 

Nancy Ouchida-Howells

Calligraphy for the beginner

 

Tom Gourdie

Calligrapher’s Handbook, The

 

Heather Child

Calligraphy in the Graphic Arts

 

Michael Harvey

Calligraphy: Inspiration, Innovation, Communication

 

David Harris

Calligraphy of Lloyd J Reynolds, The

 

Gunderson & Lehman

Calligraphic Swash Initials

 

Arthur Baker

Calligraphy Manual, The

 

Arthur Baker

Calligraphy of the Middle Ages & how to do it

 

Marc Drogin

Calligraphy Sampler, The

 

Charles Pearce

Calligraphy Stroke by Stroke 

 

Annie Moring

Calligraphy Teacher’s Manual, A

 

Cape Calligraphy Teacher’s Guild

Calligraphy Techniques to get you started

 

Maureen Sullivan

Calligraphy Techniques

 

John Lancaster

Calligraphy Today (Pub:1976)

 

Heather Child

Calligraphy 

 

Claude Mediavilla

Calligraphy, Art and Colour

 

Peter Halliday

Calligraphy, Illumination & Heraldry

 

Patricia Lovett

Calligraphy: A Guide to Hand Lettering 

 

Margaret Morgan

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Painting

 

Carl Nordenfalk

Celtic Art; Methods of Construction

 

George Bain

Celtic Calligraphy

 

Vivien Lunniss

Celtic Design & Ornament for Calligraphers

 

Jack Mackinder

Celtic Design: A Beginner’s Manual

 

Aidan Meehan

Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters

 

Aidan Meehan

Celtic Design: Knotwork

 

Aidan Meehan

Celtic Hand Stroke by Stroke

 

Arthur Baker

Celtic Illumination 

 

Courtney Davis

Celtic Illumination: The Irish School 

 

Courtney Davis

Celtic Knots

 

Aidan Meehan

Character, The

 

John Stevens

Complete Calligrapher, The

 

Frederick Wong

Complete Guide to Heraldry, A

 

A C Fox-Davies

Contemporary British Lettering (Pub: 1984)

 

Michael Taylor Rare Books

Copybook of Renaissance Calligraphy (Mercator’s Italic Hand)

 

Arthur Baker

Craft of Calligraphy, The

 

Dorothy Mahoney

Creative Calligraphy (Instructions and Alphabets)

 

Hermann Zapf

Creative Calligraphy

 

Marie Lynskey

Creative Lettering & Calligraphy 

 

Peter Halliday

Creative Lettering Today

 

Michael Harvey

Creative Stroke, The (Communicating with Brush & Pen in Graphic Design)

 

Richard Emery

Draw your own Celtic Designs

 

David James

Encyclopedia of Calligraphy & Illumination, The

 

Janet Mehigan & Mary Noble

Encyclopedia of Calligraphy Techniques, The

 

Diana Hardy Wilson

Examples of Handwriting 1550 – 1650

 

W S B Buck

F W Tamblyn’s Home Instructor in Penmanship

 

Pub: Ziller

Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting (1200 – 1500), The

 

Richard Marks & Nigel Morgan

Formal Penmanship & Other Papers

 

Edward Johnston

Guide to Heraldry, A

 

Ottfried Neubecker

Hand Lettering for Crafts

 

Sandra Salamony

Handbook for students of Calligraphy, A

 

David Nicholls

Handmade Books and Albums 

 

Mary Ryst

Handwriting for Today

 

Tom Gourdie

Handwriting in America: A Cultural History

 

Tamara Plakins Thornton

Handwriting: Everyone’s Art 

 

Timothy Wilcox & Ewan Clayton  

Historical Scripts (From Classical times to the Renaissance)

 

Stan Knight

Historical Source Book for Scribes, The

 

M Brown & P Lovett

History & Technique of Lettering, The

 

Alexander Nesbitt

How to become a professional Calligrapher

 

Stuart David

Hunanistic Script of the 15th & 16th Centuries 

 

Fairbank & Hunt

Illuminated Alphabet, The 

 

Timothy Noad

Illuminated Manuscripts exhibited in the Grenville Library

 

Pub: British Museum

Illumination & Decoration for Calligraphy

 

Margaret Morgan

Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J R Abbey

 

Alexander & de la Mare

Italian Renaissance Illuminations

 

J J G Alexander

Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting

 

Inga Dubay & Barbara Getty

Italic Notebook, An

 

Ąbraham Lincoln

Italic Writing: a concise guide

 

W M Aaron

Lessons in Formal Writing

 

Edward Johnston

Lettercraft

 

John R Biggs

Lettering

 

Graily Hewitt

Letters

 

James Hutchinson

Letters, Lines, Images – International exhibition catalogue

 

 

Lindisfarne Gospels, The

 

Janet Backhouse

Long Tradition, The

 

 

Oxford Scribes

Manual of Calligraphy, A

 

Peter Taylor

Mastering Calligraphy

 

Timothy Noad

Medieval Calligraphy 

 

Marc Drogin

Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter

 

Janet Backhouse

Messiah 

 

Timothy Botts

Miniature dei corali per il Duomo di Siena

 

Enzo Carli

Modern Scribes & Lettering Artists 1 (Pub 1980)

 

Pub: Cassell

Modern Scribes & Lettering Artists 2 (Pub 1986)

 

Pub: Trefoil Books

More then Fine Writing: Irene Welligton

 

Child, Collins, Hechle & Jackson

Mystic Art of Written Forms, The

 

Friedrich Neugebauer

Of the Just Shaping of Letters

 

Albrecht Durer

One Hundred Great Calligraphy Tips

 

Judy Kastin

Pages from Illuminated Lettering 

 

Archibald Knox

Paint your own Illuminated Letters

 

Stefan Oliver

Painted Labyrinth, The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels

 

Michelle Brown

Painting for Calligraphers

 

Marie Angel

Painting With Words – the calligraphy of Donald Jackson

 

 

Pen Lettering

 

Ann Camp

Pointed Brush Writing Manual

 

Fran Strom

Practical Calligraphy

 

John Nash & Gerald Fleuss           

Practical Gilding

 

Peter & Ann Mactaggart

Practical Guide to Calligraphy, The

 

Rosemary Sassoon

Primio Belle Lettre Awards

 

Ed: Carlo Buffa

Roman Lettering

 

L C Evetts

Roman Writing Tablets from Vindolanda, The

 

Alan K Bowman

Scribe (a scribe’s notebook)

 

George L Thomson

Scribes & Illuminators

 

Christopher de Hamel

Scribes & Sources (Handbook of the Chancery Hand)

 

Osley & Wolpe

Scripsit: Winter 1999, Vol 21, No2

 

  Washington Calligraphers Guild

Script Lettering for Artists

 

Tommy Thompson

Secreta (3 methods of laying gold leaf)

 

Joyce Grafe

Sixty Alphabets

 

Gunnlaugur S E Brienn

Spencerian Penmanship 

 

Pub: Mott Media

Spencerian Script & Ornamental Penmanship 

 

Michael Sull

Spirit of Calligraphy, The

 

Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild

Starting Calligraphy 

 

Tom Barnard

Step-by-Step Calligraphy

 

Susan Hufton

Step-by-Step: Creative Calligraphy

 

John Smith

Teach Calligraphy? Who? Me?

 

Betty J Locke

Teach yourself Calligraphy

 

Patricia Lovett

Technique of Copperplate Calligraphy, The

 

Gordon Turner

Technique of Raised Gilding, The

 

Jerry Tresser

Three Classics of Italian Calligraphy (Arrighi, Tagliente, Palatino)

 

Dover Publications

Uncommon Numbers Manual, The

 

Ed: Brenda Casey

Unfolding of Letterforms (from 1st century to 15th), The 

 

Rutherford Aris

Universal Penman, The 

 

George Bickham

Usborne Complete Book of Calligraphy

 

Caroline Young

Wedding (invitations, announcements, placecards, and more)

 

Bette Matthews

William Gardner’s Book of Calligraphy

 

 

Written Letters, 22 Alphabets for Calligraphers

 

Jaqueline Svaren

Written Letters, 33 Alphabets for Calligraphers 

 

Jaqueline Svaren

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AUGUSTO'S BOOKS FOR SALE

 

Art of Calligraphy, Western Europe & America, The

 

Joyce Irene Whally

£30

Calligrapher’s Handbook, The

 

Quill Publishing

£4

Complete guide to Calligraphy Techniques & Materials

 

Judy Martin

£4

First Writing Book: Arrighi’s Operina. The

 

John Howard Benson

 £7 (Rare, out of print)

Practical Guide to Lettering & Applied Calligraphy, The

 

Rosemary Sassoon

 £4

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