![Item #26577 Hoen Ho: Kyuseikyu Reisenmei Rinsho Shugakucho [calligraphy manual]. Chuo School of...](/pictures/thumb/26577.jpg?v=1633973483)
1987. Chuo School of Art Press. Hoen Ho: Kyuseikyu Reisenmei Rinsho Shugakucho [The Square and Circle Method: Penmanship etc.]. Tokyo: Chu Bijyutsu Gakuen Shuppankyoku [Chuo School of Art Press], 1987. 83 loose sheets total, housed in a folding cardboard case with ties. The sheets are ca. 9 1/2 x 13..... More
![Item #30383 Cahier d'Entrainement a l'Ecriture [handwriting manual]; Anglaise Penchee --...](/pictures/thumb/30383.jpg?v=1633973573)
Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. Covers and pages age-browned. French elementary student's exercise book for learning to write cursive lowercase letters in the "sloping English" style. Sixth and last in the series. Each spread..... More
London: Thomas and Hudson, 1993. Meehan, Aidan. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, over 400 line ills. by the author. Comprehensive guide to analyzing and constructing the spirals and related motifs of Celtic design,by a well-known student and practitioner of it. The text is in very readable calligraphy. Can be sent..... More
Paris: Fernand Nathan, n.d. [1930s?]. No stated edition. 48p, 48 line ills. All printed in black and red. Small initials printed in some of the illustrations. Fair (covers and margins a little chewed; front cover stained, internally very good, unused). . Reading, spelling, and handwriting manual for French primary school..... More
![Item #30099 Zakko Hinagata [Templates for Carpenters] -- 2 books. Taiga Hankoku Ochiai, Sentaro...](/pictures/thumb/30099.jpg?v=1661437983)
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan: Seibundo, N.d. [ca. 1876]. No stated edition. Japanese stab paper binding. N.p. [each ca. 24p], many line ills., partly printed in red. Two carpentry manuals showing details and proportions of traditional Japanese wood construction and carving. Originally printed in two 2-volume sets. Ours are volume 1, number..... More
Boston: Ginn, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 162p, no ills. Covers lightly rubbed, paper label browned. From the library of a professor Cross, with his pencil name and with a gift card laid in. Perhaps a later printing? (copyright line reads 66.12). No jacket (as issued?). Originally published in the scientific..... More
Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1927. Smith, Nettie S. No stated edition. Soft cover (limp boards). 102p, many line and halftone ills. by the author, 2 plates in color. Covers lightly chipped and rubbed, spine faded. Many lessons in two-dimensional design, materials, color, techniques, etc., including designing from photographs. The attractive..... More
