Author: George Bickham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486297798
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Unabridged reprint of extremely rare 18th-century manual offers helpful hints on forming letters, holding the pen, arm and wrist positions, and posture. Includes rich sampling of alphabets, maxims, didactic verses, and other words of advice. Charmingly illustrated instruction manual for calligraphers, commercial artists,and devoteés of fine penmanship.
George Bickham's Penmanship Made Easy, Or, The Young Clerk's Assistant)
Author: George Bickham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486297798
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Unabridged reprint of extremely rare 18th-century manual offers helpful hints on forming letters, holding the pen, arm and wrist positions, and posture. Includes rich sampling of alphabets, maxims, didactic verses, and other words of advice. Charmingly illustrated instruction manual for calligraphers, commercial artists,and devoteés of fine penmanship.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486297798
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Unabridged reprint of extremely rare 18th-century manual offers helpful hints on forming letters, holding the pen, arm and wrist positions, and posture. Includes rich sampling of alphabets, maxims, didactic verses, and other words of advice. Charmingly illustrated instruction manual for calligraphers, commercial artists,and devoteés of fine penmanship.
The Universal Penman
Author: George Bickham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486206165
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
"An essential part of any art library, and a book of permanent value not affected by seasonal styles." — American Artist. Here is Bickham's famous treasury of English roundhand calligraphy from 1740. Includes 125 pictorial scenes, over 200 script pictures, 19 complete animals, 275 lettered specimens, more than 100 panels, frames, cartouches, and other effects, and more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486206165
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
"An essential part of any art library, and a book of permanent value not affected by seasonal styles." — American Artist. Here is Bickham's famous treasury of English roundhand calligraphy from 1740. Includes 125 pictorial scenes, over 200 script pictures, 19 complete animals, 275 lettered specimens, more than 100 panels, frames, cartouches, and other effects, and more.
Ornamental Penmanship
Fraktur
Author: Ruthanne Hartung
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811771369
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur. These include birth and marriage certificates, family trees, bookplates, awards, and house blessings. Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung adapts the craft to modern tastes and needs in this practical how-to book, with information on tools, step-by-step instructions, ideas for design, lettering and coloring techniques, and a variety of projects. An assortment of traditional patterns to apply to personal frakturs are included.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811771369
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur. These include birth and marriage certificates, family trees, bookplates, awards, and house blessings. Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung adapts the craft to modern tastes and needs in this practical how-to book, with information on tools, step-by-step instructions, ideas for design, lettering and coloring techniques, and a variety of projects. An assortment of traditional patterns to apply to personal frakturs are included.
The Young Clerk's Assistant; Or, Penmanship Made Easy, Instructive and Entertaining: Being a Compleat Pocket-copy-book, Neatly Engrav'd for the Practice of Youth in the Art of Writing
Ornamental Calligraphy
Author: George J. Becker
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486276786
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A remarkable series of studies, including 23 complete alphabets, in ornate penmanship. Among the lettering styles: Roman print, German text, Old English print and English church text.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486276786
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A remarkable series of studies, including 23 complete alphabets, in ornate penmanship. Among the lettering styles: Roman print, German text, Old English print and English church text.
Old English Cuts and Illustrations
Author: Bowles
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486167569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A rich source of striking imagery, this compilation of 163 black-and-white prints was reproduced from a rare collection of 18th-century broadsides. Illustrations include folkloric characters (Peggy Bacon-face, Bet Boozer, Sir John Falstaff) as well as animals, ships, soldiers, traditional English heroes and members of the royal family, and other distinctive graphics.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486167569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A rich source of striking imagery, this compilation of 163 black-and-white prints was reproduced from a rare collection of 18th-century broadsides. Illustrations include folkloric characters (Peggy Bacon-face, Bet Boozer, Sir John Falstaff) as well as animals, ships, soldiers, traditional English heroes and members of the royal family, and other distinctive graphics.
Medieval Calligraphy
Author: Marc Drogin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486261425
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Spirited history and comprehensive instruction manual covers 13 styles (ca. 4th–15th centuries). Excellent photographs; directions for duplicating medieval techniques with modern tools. "Vastly rewarding and illuminating." — American Artist.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486261425
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Spirited history and comprehensive instruction manual covers 13 styles (ca. 4th–15th centuries). Excellent photographs; directions for duplicating medieval techniques with modern tools. "Vastly rewarding and illuminating." — American Artist.
One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Author: James Walker Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Historic Texarkana
Author: Beverly J. Rowe
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377019
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377019
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description