Calligraphy and paleography : essays presented to Alfred Fairbank on his 70th birthday / edited by A.S. Osley
1965, 1st edition. [London] : Faber & Faber. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #435306
Physical description: xxiii, 286 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portrait 26 cm. Contents: A scholar penman / J.A. Cole -- Alfred Fairbank's opus / Ruari McLean -- The book of remembrance, St. Clement Danes / Sir Theodore McEvoy -- Fragment of a tenth-century English gospel lectionary / Francis Wormald -- More humanistic manuscripts / B.L. Ullman -- Messer Piero Strozzi, a Florentine priest and scribe / Albinia de la Mare -- Florilegium alphabeticum : alphabets in medieval manuscripts / Berthold L. Wolpe -- A manuscript from the library of Coluccio Salutati / R.W. Hunt -- Seymour de Ricci's `Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta' / Joan Gibbs -- Variant issues of the first edition of Ludovico Arrighi Vicentino's Operina / Philip Hofer -- The origins of italic type / A.S. Osley -- The significance of the Colchester Clitia ms. / Frank Allan Thomson.
(Cont.) Gerard Mercator : cartographer and writing master / Ben Engelhart & Chris Brand -- John Hodgkin : writing-master and calligrapher (1766-1845) / Stanley Godman -- Benjamin Franklin Foster / Ray Nash -- According to Cocker / Sir Francis Meynell -- Non-arbitrary proportions of page and type area / Jan Tschichold -- Expressionist lettering / Nicolete Gray -- Notes on movement involving touch / Lloyd J. Reynolds -- Emery Walker : a Victorian champion of chancery italic -- Handwriting in schools / Alec Hay -- Italic revival : early days / Geoffrey Tillotson -- How the italic hand came to New York / Paul Standard -- ` -- for there is so much to do!' / Bent Rohde -- Notes on the history of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators / C.M. Lamb -- The Society for Italic Handwriting / Anna Hornby. (Cont.) Italic and a septuagenarian / H.E.R. Alefounder -- Good handwriting / Sir Sydney Cockerell -- Bartholomew Dodington / Alfred Fairbank -- Chinese italic / Margaret Horton -- Bartolomeo San Vito / Alfred Fairbank -- The first italic pen / Geo. W. Hughes -- Teaching handwriting / Prue Wallis-Myers -- The Arrighi style of book-hand / Alfred Fairbank -- Humanist script in Florence in the early fifteenth century / R.W. Hunt -- What makes a good style? / Alfred Fairbank -- The image maker / Oliver St. John Gogarty. Subjects: Fairbank, Alfred J. Paleography. Penmanship.
Price: €45.00