Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering

WRITING & ILLUMINATING, AND LETTERING

EDITOR’S PREFACE

AUTHOR’S PREFACE - WRITING

ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA

PART I WRITING ILLUMINATING

PART II LETTERING - CHAPTER XIV GOOD LETTERING——SOME METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION & ARRANGEMENT Good Models — The Qualities of Good Lettering — Simplicity — Distinctiveness — Proportion — Beauty of Form — Beauty of Uniformity — Right Arrangement — Setting Out & Fitting In — “Massed Writing” & “Fine Writing” — Even Spacing — Theory & Practice. - GOOD MODELS

APPENDIX A - CHAPTER XVI SPECIAL SUBJECTS Divers Uses of Lettering — MS. Books, &c. — Binding MSS. (with Note by Douglas Cockerell) — 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. - DIVERS USES OF LETTERING

APPENDIX B - CHAPTER XVII INSCRIPTIONS IN STONE (By A. E. R. Gill) 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. - TREATMENT & ARRANGEMENT

NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES (Note.—In order to make the illustrations [whether of facsimiles or enlargements] as large and as full as possible, I have sacrificed “appearance” to use and allowed most of the collotype plates, and many of the diagrams in the book, to encroach on the margins.—E. J.)

THE COLLOTYPE PLATES