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xeni's review
5.0
This was my fist calligraphy book ever, and I still refer to it time to time, especially for the wonderful timeline of calligraphy writing styles found at the beginning of the book!
Ever wonder how we came from Roman type, to Celtic swirls, to English Copperplate to a more German Blackletter? Well, the timeline in this book shows you all that.
Also, there is a wonderful chart at the back that has all the letters of all the 20 different alphabets as a quick-view.
At the beginning you find the usual items you need to work at calligraphy, how to do it (properly) and then in between also lots and lots of examples of real documents! (I love those examples so much).
This book has less of the more modern calligraphy (so works of art featuring calligraphy) but there are better books for that.
Ever wonder how we came from Roman type, to Celtic swirls, to English Copperplate to a more German Blackletter? Well, the timeline in this book shows you all that.
Also, there is a wonderful chart at the back that has all the letters of all the 20 different alphabets as a quick-view.
At the beginning you find the usual items you need to work at calligraphy, how to do it (properly) and then in between also lots and lots of examples of real documents! (I love those examples so much).
This book has less of the more modern calligraphy (so works of art featuring calligraphy) but there are better books for that.
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