Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering

Edward Johnston

EDITOR'S PREFACE

AUTHOR'S PREFACE WRITING

ADDENDA and CORRIGENDA

CONTENTS

PART I WRITING et ILLUMINATING

PART II LETTERING CHAPTER XIV GOOD LETTERING SOME METHODS OF

APPENDIX A CHAPTER XVI SPECIAL SUBJECTS Divers Uses of

APPENDIX B CHAPTER XVII INSCRIPTIONS IN STONE ( By A. E. R.

NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES ( Note. In order to make the

THE COLLOTYPE PLATES

NOTES ON THE PLATES Plate XIX, Continued

INDEX

See Transcriber's Endnote for details of this transcription. Scans of the original printed book are available from archive.org/details/writingillumina00john.

THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES

OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS

EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY

WRITING & ILLUMINATING,
AND LETTERING

Frontispiece.

A SCRIPTORIUM

This drawing (about two-fifths of the linear size of the original) is made from a photograph of a miniature painted in an old MS. (written in 1456 at the Hague by Jean Mielot, Secretary to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy), now in the Paris National Library (MS. Fonds franÇais 9,198).

It depicts Jean Mielot himself, writing his collection of Miracles of Our Lady in French. His parchment appears to be held steady by a weight and also by (? the knife or filler in) his left hand—compare fig. 41 in this book. Above there is a sort of reading desk, holding MSS. for copying or reference.

WRITING & ILLUMINATING, & LETTERING. BY EDWARD JOHNSTON. WITH DIAGRAMS & ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR & NOEL ROOKE 8 pp. EXAMPLES IN RED & BLACK AND 24 pp. OF COLLOTYPES. PUBLISHED BY JOHN HOGG 13 PATERNOSTER ROW LONDON 1906

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WRITING & ILLUMINATING, AND LETTERING

WRITING & ILLUMINATING,
AND LETTERING