Treasury of calligraphy : 219 great examples, 1522-1840
- Title
- Treasury of calligraphy : 219 great examples, 1522-1840 / edited by Jan Tschichold.
- Published by
- New York : Dover, 1984.
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- Description
- xiii, 200 pages of plates : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- "Eminent calligrapher, designer and design historian Jan Tschichold here offers admirers of fine art and handwriting a stunning collection of over 300 years of the best of European calligraphic art. Treasury of Calligraphy presents 219 examples of work by dozens of Europe's master calligraphers--the cream of the manuals and copybooks, selected according to Tschichold's personal criteria of expressiveness and aesthetic importance. Here is the near-Gothic rodonda of 16th-century Spaniard Juan de Yciar; the variations on northern Fraktur and southern cursive practices by his German contemporary Caspar Neff; the sparingly used, dramatic ornaments of 17th-century Lyons master François Desmoulins; and magnificent scripts by Palatino, Wyss, Vespasiano, Cresci, van den Velde, Beauchesne and Baildon, Barbedor, Casanova, Snell, Bickham, Stirling and many others."--back cover.
- Uniform title
- Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. English.
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Translation of: Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. 2nd ed. Basel : Birkhäuser, 1949.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. xi-xiii.