The Practice of Letters: The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800
Language: English
Published by Harvard College Library, 1997
- First Edition
- Softcover
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First Edition of 2,500 copies. 12 x 8.5 in. XXIII, 127 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Card wraps. Light crease to upper corner of front board, no internal markings. Near Fine. Laid-in exhibition catalogue for An Exhibition of Alphabets from Clay Tablet to Photo-Composition held at the Chapin Library of Rare Books in 1969.
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- Title
- The Practice of Letters: The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800
- Author
- Becker, David P.
- Publisher
- Harvard College Library
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0914630180
- ISBN 13
- 9780914630180
- Edition
- 1st Edition
After the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, the art of writing in manuscript took on fresh meaning. Printed manuals for the teaching of lettering and handwriting quickly appeared, marketed to a growing literate readership anxious to express humanistic values through fine writing. Mixing the aesthetics of calligraphy with innovative new means of printing, writing manuals thus reflect both the proliferation of print technology and the growing social value of a fine hand.
Philip Hofer, Founding Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library, was long fascinated with the printed works of writing masters and amassed one of the great collections of early penmanship textbooks before his death in 1984. David P. Becker's catalogue tells the story of this collection while amply illustrating the diversity and expressive power of the arts of the pen.
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