Treasury of calligraphy : 219 great examples, 1522-1840

Title
  1. Treasury of calligraphy : 219 great examples, 1522-1840 / edited by Jan Tschichold.
Published by
  1. New York : Dover, 1984.

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Additional authors
  1. Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974.
Description
  1. xiii, 200 pages of plates : illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. English.
Subject
  1. Calligraphy
  2. Paleography
  3. Paleography
  4. paleography
  5. Beispielsammlung
  6. Kalligrafie
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Translation of: Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. 2nd ed. Basel : Birkhäuser, 1949.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. xi-xiii.