Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
, by Lethaby, W. R.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781406793437 | 1406793434
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/31/2006
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