Out Now !

The team has been busy behind the scenes putting together this excellent manual, packed with solid advice and resources, to assist all debut authors submitting to the Island Prize - while aimed primarily at authors of Africa, it offers much guidance to everyone working on their first opus !

Available to download from the Holland House site with one easy click

https://www.hhousebooks.com/clamshell-press-workbook/

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Johann Gottfried Weber (calligraphy) and Heinrich-Hugo Cöntgen (engraving), Nachtrag zu der im Jahre 1780 herausgegebenen allgemeinen Anweisung der neuen Schönschreibkunst des hochgräflichen Lippischen und Bottenmeisters und Aktuaeius Johann Gottfried Weber Detmold, Germany, 1784.

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This morning, I spent too long trying to figure out why this image from an 1808 writing manual was trying to teach. I finally figured it out, but I’m not sure that Henry Dean even knew what he was truly trying to communicate as the first 2 shades are diagrammed incorrectly.

However, I don’t have access to the actual book to see if Dean wrote notes about this diagram.

While it’s an interesting diversion for a calligrapher, I think this way of checking your curves is more useful when digitizing your work…and maybe to finally understanding the mesh warp tool (but that is yet to be seen.

Image source: Letter Arts Review 24:4 (2010)
Original source: Dean’s Analytical Guide, to the Art of Penmanship by Henry Dean (1808, New York)

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