Books

  1. Ornamental Penmanship
    Ornamental Penmanship

  2. The Bury Bible
    The Bury Bible

  3. Lettering Tips: For Artists, Graphic Designers, and Calligraphers
    Lettering Tips: For Artists, Graphic Designers, and Calligraphers

  4. Modern Monograms 1310 Graphic Designs: 1310 Graphic Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Modern Monograms 1310 Graphic Designs: 1310 Graphic Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

  5. Contemporary Calligraphy: Modern Scribes and Lettering Artists II
    Contemporary Calligraphy: Modern Scribes and Lettering Artists II

  6. The Calligraphy of Lloyd J. Reynolds
    The Calligraphy of Lloyd J. Reynolds

  7. Condensed Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Condensed Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

  8. Design in Italy: 1870 To the Present
    Design in Italy: 1870 To the Present

  9. Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy
    Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy

  10. The Pavilion of Marital Harmony: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Between Tradition and Modernity
    The Pavilion of Marital Harmony: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Between Tradition and Modernity

  11. The Floating World: Japanese Hanging Scrolls from the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
    The Floating World: Japanese Hanging Scrolls from the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art

  12. Calligraphy
    Calligraphy

  13. Calligraphy Tips
    Calligraphy Tips

  14. Pen Calligraphy Manual
    Pen Calligraphy Manual

  15. Arthur Baker's Historic Calligraphic Alphabets (Dover Pictorial Archives)
    Arthur Baker's Historic Calligraphic Alphabets (Dover Pictorial Archives)

  16. The Biblical Year 2004 Calendar
    The Biblical Year 2004 Calendar

  17. Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion
    Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion

  18. F. W. Tamblyn's Home Instructor in Penmanship
    F. W. Tamblyn's Home Instructor in Penmanship

  19. Creative Calligraphy
    Creative Calligraphy

  20. Calligraphy
    Calligraphy

  21. Artist & Alphabet: 20th Century Calligraphy & Letter Art in America
    Artist & Alphabet: 20th Century Calligraphy & Letter Art in America

  22. Books of Hours
    Books of Hours

  23. Classic Type Faces and How to Use Them: Including 91 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Classic Type Faces and How to Use Them: Including 91 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

  24. The Benedictional of AEthelwold (Studies in Manuscript Illumination 9)
    The Benedictional of AEthelwold (Studies in Manuscript Illumination 9)

  25. Dictionary of Signatures/Signaturenlexikon: In Cooperation With Claire Pfisterer/Unter Mitarbeit Von Claire Pfisterer
    Dictionary of Signatures/Signaturenlexikon: In Cooperation With Claire Pfisterer/Unter Mitarbeit Von Claire Pfisterer

Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship: Early American Handwriting (Volume 2)
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Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship: Early American Handwriting (Volume 2)

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0962102520

Product Description

Volume 2 of a 2 volume set includes photos, examples, history, anecdotes and lots of examples of early american handwriting. Chapters cover Penmanship of Platt R. Spencer; Letterforms; Correspondence Writing; Signature Writing; Novelty Styles; and Off-Hand Flourishing.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Real Source.......2005-01-24

Michael Sull is a valued researcher and those who wish to go to the real source of American Handwriting development must have this book. It is available at http://www.johnnealbooks.com/
Ornamental Penmanship
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    Ornamental Penmanship
    Thomas Tomkins , and William Milns
    Manufacturer: Dover Publications
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    CalligraphyCalligraphy | Graphic Design | Design & Decorative Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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    ASIN: 0486244490

    Book Description

    Handsome volume collects one work each by two eighteenth-century masters of calligraphy. Tomkins’ Beauties of Writing (1777) and Milns’s The Penman’s Repository (1795). Authentic, beautiful calligraphic alphabets, flourishes, messages and other decorative elements. 75 plates.
    Becker's ornamental penmanship: A series of analytical and finished alphabets
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      Becker's ornamental penmanship: A series of analytical and finished alphabets
      George J Becker
      Manufacturer: Irving Zucker
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Unknown Binding

      AlphabetAlphabet | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
      ASIN: B0007FVKS4
      Lessons in ornamental penmanship
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        Lessons in ornamental penmanship
        C. P Zaner
        Manufacturer: Zaner-Bloser Co
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Unknown Binding

        HandwritingHandwriting | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
        ASIN: B0008BV6LI
        Ames' Compendium of practical and ornamental penmanship: Giving more than 20 entire alphabets with numerous designs for engrossed resolutions, testimonials, ... monograms, miscellaneous designs, &c
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          Ames' Compendium of practical and ornamental penmanship: Giving more than 20 entire alphabets with numerous designs for engrossed resolutions, testimonials, ... monograms, miscellaneous designs, &c
          Daniel T Ames
          Manufacturer: Lithographics
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Unknown Binding

          Decoration & OrnamentDecoration & Ornament | Interior Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
          AlphabetAlphabet | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
          HandwritingHandwriting | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
          ASIN: B00070RKU6
          Ornamental penmanship: Analytical and finished alphabets
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            Ornamental penmanship: Analytical and finished alphabets
            George J Becker
            Manufacturer: I. Zucker
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Unknown Binding

            Decoration & OrnamentDecoration & Ornament | Interior Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
            ASIN: B0007I65BI
            E Z HAND LETTERING Felt Tip, Speedball, Watercolor, Crayon  - Manuscript Writin and Ornamental Penmanship
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              E Z HAND LETTERING Felt Tip, Speedball, Watercolor, Crayon - Manuscript Writin and Ornamental Penmanship
              Pearl L. Tuttle
              Manufacturer: International Child Evangelism Fellowship
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback
              ASIN: B000JFU952
              Michael's complete work of plain and ornamental penmanship
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                Michael's complete work of plain and ornamental penmanship
                George Washington Michael
                Manufacturer: Hann & Adair, printers
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Unknown Binding

                GeneralGeneral | Publishing & Books | Reference | Subjects | Books
                HandwritingHandwriting | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
                ASIN: B0008C96T6
                Becker's system of penmanship: Comprising manual and elementary exercises, business and epistolary writing, and ornamental penmanship : in twelve numbers
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                  Becker's system of penmanship: Comprising manual and elementary exercises, business and epistolary writing, and ornamental penmanship : in twelve numbers
                  George J Becker
                  Manufacturer: Uriah Hunt
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Unknown Binding

                  GeneralGeneral | Publishing & Books | Reference | Subjects | Books
                  HandwritingHandwriting | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
                  ASIN: B0008BNN0U
                  The Columbian penman;: Comprising a complete series of plain and ornamental hand copies
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                    The Columbian penman;: Comprising a complete series of plain and ornamental hand copies
                    Thomas Towndrow
                    Manufacturer: C. Taber
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Unknown Binding

                    HandwritingHandwriting | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
                    ASIN: B00088IFWY

                    Books:

                    1. Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York (Tiny Folios Series)
                    2. The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy
                    3. Digital Calligraphy with Photoshop (One Off)
                    4. Wooden Houses
                    5. Brushes With Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy
                    6. Lettering for Students and Craftspeople (Dover Books on Lettering, Graphic Arts, and Printing)
                    7. Three-D and Shaded Alphabets: One Hundred Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archives)
                    8. Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens (The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture)
                    9. Ornamental Penmanship
                    10. Fu Shan's World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century (Harvard East Asian Monographs, No. 220)

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