Gourdie, Tom — Calligraphic Styles

New York, Taplinger Pub Co, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This beautiful book provides a letter-by-letter analysis of all the important alphabets used by today's calligraphers, a practical survey of calligraphic styles based on the great hands of the Western writing and lettering tradition spanning two thousand years of history. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in two-tone, black paper over boards, brick red cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 1-106 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,