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 PlatesLethaby, W. R. is the author of 'Writing & Illuminating & Lettering The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks', published 2006 under ISBN 9781406793437 and ISBN 1406793434.