"This book supplies and supplies generously a need which has become urgent.... For purposes purely practical, no teacher of plain handwriting need know more than this book tells him; nor should be content to know less."
HERALDRY FOR CRAFTSMEN AND DESIGNERS. By W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, Litt.D., D.C.L. Small Crown 8vo, 496 pp., 300 diagrams and designs, 24 collotype reproductions, and 8 coloured plates, 10s. 6d. net.
Extract from The Athenæum:
"A series which includes three such books as Mr. Douglas Cockerell's 'Bookbinding,' Mr. Edward Johnston's 'Writing,' and this ranks almost as a national possession.... No artist can see this book without wanting to buy it, if it were only for the beauty of the objects selected for illustration."
SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, LIMITED
FROM THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES
WRITING AND ILLUMINATING & LETTERING. By EDWARD JOHNSTON. Tenth Edition. 227 illustrations and diagrams by the Author and NOEL ROOKE, 8 pp. of examples in red and black, 24 pp. of collotype reproductions, 512 pp. Small Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.
Extract from The Athenæum:
"... This book belongs to that extremely rare class in which every line bears the impress of complete mastery of the subject. We congratulate Mr. Johnston on having produced a work at once original and complete."