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The British Library companion to calligraphy, illumination & heraldry : a history and practical guide
by Patricia Lovett
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0712346805
- ISBN 13
- 9780712346801
- Seller
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About This Item
This copy with signed calligraphic gift inscription from the author opposite half title page. Contents: Calligraphy. Introduction ; Materials and equipment ; Starting to write ; Historical alphabets ; Experimenting with letters ; Working to commission ; Ideas with letters ; Handwriting and calligraphy / Rosemary Sassoon ; Calligraphy and typeface design / Hermann Zapf. -- Illumination. Introduction ; The art of illumination / Michelle P. Brown ; How to gild ; Illumination projects. -- Heraldry. Introduction ; The history of heraldry ; A coat of arms ; Designing and painting a coat of arms ; The College of Arms ; The modern herald / D.H.B. Chesshyre, Clarenceux King of Arms ; Heraldry around us ; Different heraldic traditions. 320 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm. First edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, small repaired tear to lower edge of back cover, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016508
- Title
- The British Library companion to calligraphy, illumination & heraldry : a history and practical guide
- Author
- Patricia Lovett
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0712346805
- ISBN 13
- 9780712346801
- Publisher
- British Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
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