The Universal Penman

This Dover edition, however, contains every plate which Bickham engraved, and each is reproduced from an original so remarkably clear that these modern plates are actually better than most 18th-century originals. • Over 200 script pictures, male and female heads, busts, cherubs, griffins, birds, fish, etc. • Over 100 panels, frames, cartouches, and other effects Over 950 lettered specimens, with thousands of words that can be lifted right off for reproduction. • 19 complete alphabets: round hand, round text, Old English, florid, foliated, and others. To list only part of its contents: • Over 125 pictorial scenes, clear copperplates of drinking scenes, family scenes, commerce, rustic festivities, duels, more. Calligraphers find Bickham the best source for English round-handwriting; commercial artists, advertising directors, and designers all find Bickham first-rate as a source for immediately usable pictures and script that suggests antiquity, quality, and reliability. In Bickham’s own day it was difficult to get a complete set of the Universal Penman; today, apart from this edition, it

This is a good book if all you want are examples of elegant Gramblau This is a good book if all you want are examples of elegant script, but it is not a book to actually teach how-to do elegant script. Therefore, I was somewhat disappointed in the book, but will use it for inspiration.. Clare said Seriously a beautiful book.. As Philip Hofer writes in the forward, "Altogether, there are many reasons why every intelligent person should take a renewed interest in good handwriting." Even if you're not a calligrapher, you should buy this book simply because it is BEAUTIFUL. The work done by George Bickham inside is stunning--both the artwork and calligraphy. Seriously, if yo. "The Old Master Penmen Had it 'Write'" according to Jan Hurst. One of the best resources for pointed pen lettering that exists. Loaned my first copy and had to replace it.