Main entry:

Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944, author.

Title & Author:

Writing & illuminating, & lettering / by Edward Johnston, C.B.E. ; with diagrams and illsutrations by the author and Noel Rooke.

Publication:

London : Pitman ; New York : Taplinger, 1977.

Description:

xxx, 439 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm

Series:

Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks
A Pentalic book

Notes:
"A Pentalic book."
Includes index.
Reprint of the 1906 edition published by J. Hugg, London.
Biographical note -- Author's preface -- Addenda & corrigenda -- Part I. Writing & illuminating : The development of writing -- Acquiring a formal hand: (1) Tools -- Acquiring a formal hand: (2) Methods -- Acquiring a formal hand: (3) Models -- Acquiring a formal hand: (4) Practice -- Manuscript books -- Verbal letters & coloured capitals -- Black & red -- Laying & burnishing gold -- The use of gold & colours in initial letters & simple illumination -- A theory of illumination -- The development of illumination -- "Design" in illumination -- Part II. Lettering : Good lettering -- some methods of construction & arrangement -- The Roman alphabet & its derivatives -- Appendix A. Special subjects -- Appendix B. Inscriptions in stone -- Appendix C. Copy of letter from Edward Johnston to Colonel Crosland.

ISBN:

0273010646 (UK)
9780273010647 (UK)
080088731X (US)
9780800887315 (US)

Subject:

Lettering.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Lettrage.
Enluminure.
illumination (image-making process)
Calligraphy & manuscript illumination - Manuals

Added entries:

Rooke, Noel, 1881-1953, illustrator.
Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19684
Call No.: NK3600.J6 1977 (PO1983)
Status: Available