Writing & Illuminating & Lettering - The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks

Contents Include: WRITING AND ILLUMINATING: The Development of Writing Acquiring a Formal Hand, Tools, Methods, Models, Practice Manuscript Books Versal Letters and Coloured Capitals Black and Red Laying and Burnishing Gold The Use of Gold and Colours in Initial Letters and Simple Illumination A Theory of Illumination The Development of Illumination "Design in Illumination" LETTERING: Good Lettering Some Methods of Construction and Arrangement The Roman Alphabet and its Derivatives Special Subjects Inscriptions in Stone Notes on the Collotype Plates The Collotype Plates