Calligraphy Training

Before the early 20th century little had been written in calligraphy with the exception History of the alphabet Clodd Edward Maude Thompson and nice work on the Greek ana Latin Paleography with its volume on English Illuminated Manuscripts, published in 1895 and exhausted before 1906. But since the time that Edward Johnston published his book on writing, lettering and illumination in a steady stream of work on all aspects of the subject have been written, probably because it was the interest aroused by pioneers in the practical side of the trade that this flow of literature has taken place here and in the United States.

The following are among the most important. The British Museum has published a guide for the collection of manuscripts they had in 1906. At the same time John W. Bradley published picture books on lighting, its history and development. During 1907, the British Museum has published reproductions of illuminated manuscripts., A series of collotype plates fifty. In 1920, WA Mason in New York published a work of scholarship on the topic of the image by writing in the Americas in collaboration with the growth of a form letter in Egypt, Phoenicia, Babylon, Assyria, Crete Greece and Rome, a book of great interest to all those who wish to study the formation of the alphabets.

With the development of photography and reproduction processes of the series of examples of epigraphy and palaeography has increased to a degree unthinkable in the early days of the century. In 1932, BL Ullnan University of Chicago published the ancient writings and influence, bringing the history of the alphabet out of date and contains some observations on the stones of Sinai, which could help solve the riddle of alphabet. Professor EA Lowe of Oxford wrote in The Legacy of the Middle Ages a chapter on "Writing" dealing with its growth before the time of Charlemagne. This is an excellent essay, which should be known by all serious students of calligraphy. James Wardrop of the Victoria and Albert Museum has also written about "Palatino and his circle" in signature, No. 14, 1952.

origins and development of world alphabets are also discussed in great numbers by D. Diringer, a scholar in the field. The French just before the war of 1939-1945 published some documents recently discovered in the plates on specimens at the beginning of the small letter under the title The Latin Eicriture J. Mallon, who takes the story back sooner than Maude great work of Thompson.

Finally, among the publications smallest and most recent is the "King Penguin" on the theme of writing by Alfred Fairbank, making it a quick review of the fourth to the twentieth centuries, and some fine photographic reproductions of detailed work of artists from the twelfth century Winchester Bible by Walter Oakshott.

Since about the year 1930 writing and letters had made such progress that it has become a topic in the training of art teachers and was taught by the immediate disciples of the two who gave their lives for the cause . Lettering of today, the first volume, published in 1937, showed the work of some of those who took the craft and were in turn forward it to the next generation.

Like art itself has grown, so has the literature representing calligraphy. The above books are great historical references, but technical books that will guide you through the art of calligraphy are also available.