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Title: Learn Calligraphy : The Complete Book of Lettering and Design by MARGARET SHEPHERD ISBN: 0-7679-0732-9 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for learning
Comment: I am learning calligraphy and have looked at a number of books on the subject. This book is, for most purposes, excellent. She gives you so much more than alphabets: key exercises to do before you start the alphabets, typical beginner's problems (most of which I have experienced!), practice pages you can reproduce. Her sections on swashes and "accessorizing" Gothic capitals are also wonderful - what had always seemed highly mysterious to me turns out to be a matter of combining building blocks, creativity, and - who would have thought - a lot of fun.
The only small drawback, if it is one, is that the book doesn't contain a lot that is good to know about techniques of setting up a drawing table, selling, etc. For that (as well as an excellent chapter on type design by Hermann Zapf himself), the book "Calligraphy and Illumination" provides more than you ever wanted to know. I don't think that book replaces this one, however - I find Margaret's explanations well worth the small amount this book costs. She'll even autograph it for you (see her web site for details).
This is a wonderful book that every calligraphy student should have.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good starting point
Comment: After many years, I restarted calligraphy again with this book. It is straight forward and easy to use. If you are thinking of learning calligraphy on your own, this is one of the books to have. It gives you practical guidance, not just alphabets.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not good
Comment: This isn't a good book. There are much better ones on the market. To have a book printed in calligraphic hand seems to be
interesting, but it actually turns out to be methodologically not so. Much better is to have the book in normal print and the
examples in calligraphic hand. There is no contrast to help the
learner see differences. Moreover, this author may be a good
doer but to put the message across is quite a different thing:
her explanations aren't that clear.
One more point: this author needs to be urgently introduced to
copperplate hand. She does not mention it at all. As an author teaching beginning calligraphy it's
your moral obligation to show the hands. After all, copperplate
isn't one example of a hand; it1s a hand in itself.
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Title: Calligraphy Alphabets Made Easy by Margaret Shepherd ISBN: 0399512578 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Art of Calligraphy by David Harris ISBN: 1564588491 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Calligrapher's Bible : 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them by David Harris ISBN: 0764156152 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Calligraphy School (Reader's Digest Learn-As-You-Go Guide) by Gaynor Goffe, Anna Ravenscroft ISBN: 0895775247 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title:Sheaffer(R) Calligraphy Kit, Set Of 7 ASIN: B00006IC2B Publisher: Sheaffer Pen Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.97 |
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