[Gutenberg 47089] • Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Johnston, Edward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Writing & Illuminating, and Lettering Editor’s Preface Author’s Preface

WRITING ILLUMINATING LETTERING MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING & ILLUMINATING MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF LETTERING THE SCOPE OF THIS HANDBOOK

Addenda & Corrigenda Contents PART I. Writing & Illuminating.

CHAPTER I. The Development of Writing. CHAPTER II. Acquiring a Formal Hand: (1) Tools.

ACQUIRING A FORMAL HAND: TOOLS, &C. THE DESK PAPER & INK PENS OF QUILLS GENERALLY PEN-KNIFE, CUTTING-SLAB, &C.

CHAPTER III. Acquiring a Formal Hand: (2) Methods.

POSITION OF THE DESK THE WRITING LEVEL USE OF THE PEN HOLDING THE PEN

CHAPTER IV. Acquiring a Formal Hand: (3) Models.

MODELS A METHOD OF ANALYSIS. COUPLING THE LETTERS SPACING: LETTERS, WORDS, & LINES UNCIAL CAPITALS: SCRIPT II. NUMERALS & PUNCTUATION MARKS OF COPYING MSS. GENERALLY

CHAPTER V. Acquiring a Formal Hand: (4) Practice.

PRACTICE SCRIPTS I. & II. ARRANGING & RULING A SINGLE SHEET PROBLEM I. (A SHEET OF PROSE) PROBLEM II. (A SHEET OF POETRY) SPACING & PLANNING MANUSCRIPT

CHAPTER VI. Manuscript Books.

MS. BOOKS: TOOLS & MATERIALS METHODS & PROPORTIONS THE SIZE & SHAPE OF THE BOOK THE WIDTHS OF THE MARGINS THE SIZE OF THE WRITING, &C. RULING MS. BOOKS—GENERAL REMARKS

CHAPTER VII. Versal Letters & Coloured Capitals.

DEVELOPMENT OF VERSALS GENERAL ANALYSIS OF VERSALS NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION OF VERSALS SPACING & ARRANGEMENT OF VERSALS

CHAPTER VIII. Black & Red.

RUBRICATING INITIAL PAGES OR TITLE PAGES PREFACES & NOTES IN COLOUR PAGES WITH COLOURED HEADINGS PAGE OR COLUMN HEADING & INITIAL VERSALS IN COLUMN OR MARGINAL BANDS STANZAS OR VERSES MARKED BY VERSALS MUSIC WITH RED STAVES TAIL-PIECES, COLOPHONS, &C. RUBRICATING: GENERAL REMARKS

CHAPTER IX. Laying & Burnishing Gold.

TOOLS & MATERIALS LAYING THE GROUND LAYING THE GOLD-LEAF BURNISHING THE GOLD REMEDYING FAULTS IN GILDING GOLD WRITING OTHER METHODS & RECIPES FOR GILDING APPENDIX: ON GILDING (By Graily Hewitt)

CHAPTER X. The Use of Gold & Colours in Initial Letters & Simple Illumination.

TOOLS & MATERIALS FOR SIMPLE ILLUMINATION PARCHMENT, “VELLUM,” & POUNCE COLOURS SIMPLE COLOUR EFFECTS MATT GOLD BURNISHED GOLD BURNISHED GOLD FORMS & OUTLINES BACKGROUND CAPITALS APPLYING THE BACKGROUND ORNAMENT OF BACKGROUNDS

CHAPTER XI. A Theory of Illumination.

ILLUMINATION “BARBARIC, OR COLOUR-WORK, ILLUMINATION” “FILIGREE, OR PEN-WORK, ILLUMINATION” “NATURAL, OR LIMNER’S, ILLUMINATION”

CHAPTER XII. The Development of Illumination.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ILLUMINATION LINE-FINISHINGS INITIAL LETTERS BORDERS & BACKGROUNDS

CHAPTER XIII. “Design” in Illumination.

“DESIGN” ELEMENTARY PATTERNS IN DECORATION SCALE & SCOPE OF DECORATION OF “DESIGNING” MANUSCRIPTS GENERALLY

PART II. Lettering.

Chapter XIV. Good Lettering——some Methods of Construction & Arrangement.

GOOD MODELS THE QUALITIES OF GOOD LETTERING THE QUALITIES OF GOOD WRITING SIMPLICITY DISTINCTIVENESS PROPORTION (As having no part of a letter wrongly exaggerated or dwarfed—see pp. 274, 277–78) BEAUTY OF FORM BEAUTY OF UNIFORMITY RIGHT ARRANGEMENT SETTING OUT, & FITTING IN “MASSED WRITING” & “FINE WRITING” EVEN SPACING THEORY & PRACTICE

CHAPTER XV. The Roman Alphabet & Its Derivatives.

The Roman Alphabet PROPORTIONS OF LETTERS: WIDTHS UPPER & LOWER PARTS ESSENTIAL OR STRUCTURAL FORMS CHARACTERISATION OF FORMS BUILT-UP FORMS SIMPLE-WRITTEN CAPITALS UNCIALS CAPITALS & SMALL-LETTERS EARLY, ROUND, UPRIGHT, FORMAL HANDS “SLANTED-PEN” SMALL-LETTERS ROMAN SMALL-LETTERS ITALICS SEMI-FORMAL WRITING OF FORMAL WRITING GENERALLY DECORATIVE CONTRASTS ORNAMENTAL LETTERS

APPENDIX A.

CHAPTER XVI. Special Subjects.

DIVERS USES OF LETTERING MS. BOOKS, &C. BINDING MSS. BROADSIDES, WALL INSCRIPTIONS, &C. ILLUMINATED ADDRESSES, &C. MONOGRAMS & DEVICES TITLE PAGES LETTERING FOR REPRODUCTION PRINTING INSCRIPTIONS ON METAL, STONE, WOOD, &C. OF INSCRIPTIONS GENERALLY BIBLIOGRAPHY, &C.

APPENDIX B.

CHAPTER XVII. Inscriptions in Stone.

TREATMENT & ARRANGEMENT THE THREE ALPHABETS SIZE & SPACING THE MATERIAL SETTING OUT TOOLS A RIGHT USE OF THE CHISEL INCISED LETTERS & LETTERS IN RELIEF THE SECTIONS OF LETTERS WORKING IN SITU

NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES.

PLATE I. PLATE II. PLATE III. PLATE IV. PLATE V. PLATE VI. PLATE VII. PLATE VIII. PLATE IX. PLATE X. PLATE XI. PLATE XII. PLATE XIII. PLATE XIV. PLATE XV. PLATE XVI. PLATE XVII. PLATE XVIII. PLATE XIX.

THE COLLOTYPE PLATES. NOTES ON THE PLATES, Continued

PLATE XX. PLATE XXI. PLATE XXII. PLATE XXIII. PLATE XXIV.

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