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Simplicity : An Essay by Coventry Patmore written out by Irene Wellington

Calligraphic manuscript by one of the leading twentieth century British calligraphers presented by Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press to Lady Worthington with a presentation letter

Private calligraphy album : autograph manuscript

A fine calligraphy album, showing the beginnings of the Spanish modernist aesthetic in text-forms. This album - evidently both a space for practice and a fair-copy book - shows the progression from elementary penmanship to extravagant letter forms, from basic pen-strokes to bold geometric and professional-looking exercises. Elementary penstrokes are practised, both as individual letters repeated for whole line, or individual words in varying sizes. These basic efforts are interspersed with the whole alphabet in 'écriture ronde' - elaborate flourishes added to copperplate, italic, and gothic scripts. Particularly appealing are the decorated alphabets, or fancy letters, which take up the second half of the album. Through the application of shading, patterns and decorations the letters are strikingly bold and attractive. Some resemble nineteenth-century grotesque typographic letter forms, and are particularly impressive for the delicacy of their execution and the variety of designs introduced. Letterforms with flora growing from them and others resembling armour are accompanied by pared-back versions which speak to the growing modernist movement. [From dealer description]

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