[ENGLISH CALLIGRAPHY & ENGRAVING 1570-1800]. The English Writing-Masters and Their Copy-Books, 1570-1800. A Biographical Dictionary & A Bibliography. With an introduction to the development of handwriting by Stanley Morison
Cambridge: University Press, 1931. First Edition. Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"), xl, 226 pp. 81 plates. Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards (very small abrasion at tail of spine). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with..... More