We have a large collection of exchange journals and books. The Library is open from 7:00 to 7:30 on meeting nights. Please remember to bring back any books you have out. Borrowing is for MEMBERS ONLY. All items are due at the next regularly scheduled meeting. Most of our library collection has now been entered into a database (including pictures of many of the covers!). See what we have in the collection. Maybe we have that book you’ve been looking for.
Following is a list of some of the books in our library which contain instructions for learning and improving your calligraphy. Or see a PDF version of this list.
| Child, Heather. The Calligrapher’s Handbook. | Drogin, Marc . Yours Truly, King Arthur. How Medieval People Wrote and How You Can Too. |
| Dubay, Inga. Italic Letters: Calligraphy and Handwriting. |
Dubay, Inga. Italic Letters. |
| Eager, Fred. The Italic Way to Beautiful Handwriting, Cursive and Calligraphic. | Fairbank, Alfred. A Book of Scripts. |
| Fairbank, Alfred. A Handwriting Manual. | Fink, Joanne. Lettering Arts (Library of Applied Design),. |
| Frankenfield, Charles ,Stoner and Henry. Speedball Texbook, 21st Edition. | Furber, Alan. Layout and Design for Calligraphers. |
| Goffe, Gaynor. Calligraphy Made Easy. | Goffe, Gaynor. Calligraphy School (Learn as you go) |
| Gourdie, Tom. Calligraphy for the Beginner. | Gourdie, Tom. Handwriting for Today. |
| Gourdie, Tom. Handwriting Made Easy: A Simple Modern Approach. | Gourdie, Tom. Calligraphic Styles. |
| Haines, Susanne. The Calligrapher’s Project Book. | Halliday, Peter. Calligraphy: Art and Colour. |
| Halliday, Peter: Creative Calligraphy: A Do-It Yourself Guide to Decorative Lettering. | Harvey, Michael. Creative Lettering Today. |
| Hewitt, Graily. Lettering for Students and Craftsmen. | Hoare, Diana. Advanced Calligraphy Techniques: Ideas in Action. |
| Hufton, Susan. Step-by-step Calligraphy: A Complete Guide with Creative Projects. | Jackson, Dick. Copperplate Calligraphy. |
| Johnston, Edward. Book of Formal Scripts. | Johnston, Edward. Writing & Illuminating & Lettering. |
| Kastin, Judy. 100 Keys to Great Calligraphy. | Knight, Stan. Historical Scripts. |
| Krimm, Gerald. A Copperplate Manual: An Inroduction to Writing with the Pointed Pen. | Kuiseko, Ryokoshu. Brush Writing: Calligraphy Techniques for Beginners. |
| Lehman, Charles. Italic Handwriting and Calligraphy for the Beginner. | Lincoln, Abrahan. Hunt Speedball Calligraphy Workbook: An Italic Notebook |
| Lunniss, Vivien. Celtic Calligraphy. | Martin, Judy. The Complete Guide to Calligraphy. |
| Merehan, Aidan. Celtic Design: A Beginner’s Manual. | Meehan, Aidan. Celtic Alphabets (Celtic Design). |
| Nash, John. Practical Calligraphy. | Noble, Mary. The Calligrapher’s Companion. |
| Pearce, Charles. The Anatomy of Letters. | Pearce, Charles. Little Manual of Calligraphy. |
| Reaves, Marilyn. Brush Lettering: An Instructional Manual in Western Brush Calligraphy. | Rivers-Kennedy, Betsy. Insights into Left-handed Calligraphy. |
| Sassoon, Rosemary. The Practical Guide to Calligraphy . |
Shepherd, Margaret. Calligraphy Alphabets Made Easy. |
| Shepherd, Margaret. Capitals for Calligraphy: A Sourcebook of Decorative Letterring. | Shepherd, Margaret. Using Calligraphy: A Workbook of Alphabets, Projects and Techniques. |
| Slevinsky, Lynn. Marker Lettering I. | Slevinsky, Lynn. Marker Lettering II. |
| Slevinsky, Lynn. Marker Lettering III. | Stoner, Charles. Beautiful Italic Handwriting Made Easy. |
| Studley, Vance. Left-handed Calligraphy. | Svaren, Jacqueline. Written Letters: 29 Alphabets for Calligraphers |
| Thompson, Tommy. Script Lettering for Artists. | Thomson, George L. New Better Handwriting. |
| Trudgill, Anne. Basic Skills (Lettering Workbooks). | Webster, Patricia, ed. The Calligrapher’s Handbook. |
| Wellington, Irene. Copy Book. | Wellington, Irene. The Irene Wellington Copy Book. |
| Whalley, Joyce Irene. The Student’s Guide to Western Calligraphy: An Illustrated Survey. | Wilson, Diana Hardy. The Encyclopedia of Calligraphy Technqiues: A Comprehensive A-Z Directory of Calligraphy and a Step-by-step Guide to Their Use. |
| Winters, Eleanor. Mastering Copperplate: A Step-by- step Manual for Calligraphers. | Winters, Eleanor. Calligraphy in Ten Easy Lessons. |
| Woodcock, John. A Book of Formal Scripts. | Wotzkow, H. Art of Hand-lettering: Its Mastery and Practice. |
| Zapf, Hermann. Creative Calligraphy: Instructions and Alphabets. A New Instruction Manual for Learning the art of Calligraphy. |
Jennifer Maier browses the library shelves (Jan 2009)
The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only one page – Saint Augustine (Valerie McKenzie)
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