Resources

Below is a list of resources I used to help me with this book. Many of them are in the public domain and can be found easily with an Internet search.

D.T. Ames, Ames compendium of practical and ornamental penmanship (New York, 1883)

Ludovico Arrighi, Operina (Rome, 1522) (*First known writing manual)

John de Beauchesne and John Baildon, A booke containing divers sortes of hands (1570)

Engraved by George Bickham, The Universal Penman (London, 1743)

Martin Billingsley, The pens excellencie or the secretaries delighte (1618)

Amédée de Bourmont, Lecture et transcription des vieilles écritures (Caen, 1881)

Sue Budden, Alphabets Decoratifs, L’Aventurine (Paris, 1995)

Giovanni Francesco Cresci, Essemplare di più sorti lettere (Rome, 1560)

Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe, Renaissance handwriting: an anthology of italic scripts, Faber and Faber (London, 1960)

Carol Belanger Grafton (Ed.), Fanciful Victorian Initials, Dover Publications (New York, 1984)

Juan de Icíar, Arte subtilissima (Oxford, 1960).

E.A. Lupfer, The Zanerian Manual of Alphabets and Engrossing, Zaner-Bloser (Ohio, 1895)

Charles Paillasson, L’arte di scrivere: tratta dal dizionario d’ arti e mestieri dell’ encyclopedia metodica (1796)

Giovanni Battista Palatino, Libro nuovo d’imparare a scrivere (“New Book for Learning to Write”) (Rome, 1540)

Enoch Noyes, Noyes Penmanship, Jenks & Palmer (Boston, 1839)

Margaret Shepherd, Learn Calligraphy: The Complete Book of Lettering and Design, Watson-Guptill (2001)

Platt Rogers Spencer, Sr., Compendium of Spencerian or semi-angular penmanship (New York, 1866)

Platt Rogers Spencer, Theory of Spencerian Penmanship, Mott Media (Michigan, 1874)

Spencerian Authors, New Spencerian Compendium (1879)