Penmanship is the art or skill of writing with the hand by using a writing tool - commonly by using a pen or pencil in the modern era. A person's style of penmanship is referred to as "handwriting".
This extensive collection will feature over 198 vintage books on the topic of penmanship and everything else related - including lessons, guides, and illustrations. Subjects covered includes lettering, alphabets, cyphers, calligraphy, illuminating, monograms, engraving, and more!
Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
19th century swedish copybook
A chapter on lettering (1905)
A few suggestions of plain letterings for artists and others (1908)
A new book of cyphers (1750)
A practical introduction to the study of Japanese writing (1905)
A Roman alphabet and how to use it (1917)
A set of alphabets of all the various hands of modern use (1877)
A system of easy lettering (1911)
A system of easy lettering. With a supplement consisting of eight alphabets (1903)
A text-book of free-hand lettering (1909)
A text-book on plain lettering (1901)
A textbook on lettering and sign painting (1902)
Album de escrita - copybook (1816) [French]
Alphabets Old and New (1902)
Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen (1910)
American Penman and Business Educator Vol 2 Issue 3 (1887)
American Penman Vol 1 (1886)
American Penman Vol 23 Issue 11 (1908)
Ames Guide to Self-Instruction
Ames Notebook
Architectural Drawing and Lettering (1909)
Arm Movement Method - Zaner
Art monograms and lettering
Art of Penmanship - Huntington
Art of Writing - Jenkins
Becker's ornamental penmanship. A series of analytical and finished alphabets (1854)
Book of American Types ATF Standard Faces (1934)
Champion Method of Practical Business Writing
Chapter on lettering 2nd Edition (1906)
Clear type a few suggestions concerning type, letters, books and hand-writing (1907)
Clinton Clark Scrapbook Part 1
Clinton Clark Scrapbook Part 2
Clinton Clark Scrapbook Part 3
Collection of Penmanship - Canan
Compendium of Elegant Writing - Gaskell
Compendium of Real Pen Work (1880)
Compendium of Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship - Spencer
Copybook
Davids' practical letterer; instructions in commercial lettering with brush or pen (1903)
Davignon Lecriture Amercaine
Early typography (1872)
Effective type-use for advertising (1922)
Elements of lettering (1922)
Elements of lettering and sign painting (1899)
Elements of Plane and Solid Free-hand Geometrical Drawing, with Lettering (1878)
Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen (1910)
Fine hand embroidery (1914)
Fleming's self-instructor in business & ornamental penmanship (1906)
Foster - Practical Penmanship
Francis B Courtney Scrapbook
Free-hand Lettering (1912)
Gaskell's guide to writing, pen-flourishing, lettering, business letter-writing, etc (1884)
Gaskells Compendium
Gems of Flourishing - Zaner
Gems of Penmanship - Duncun
Hand lettering (1912)
How to make effective show-cards, off hand card writing and pen lettering (1898)
Kelchner - Complete Compendium of Plain Practical Penmanship
Lessons in Engravers Script
Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship - Bloser
Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship - Zaner
Lessons in Practical Penmanship - Behrensmeyer
Lettering (1916)
Lettering for Beginners (1902)
Lettering for commercial purposes (1918)
Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students (1911)
Lettering for schools and colleges, for the office and workshop (1902)
Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Lettering of working drawings (1894)
Lettering set
Letters & lettering; a treatise with 200 examples (1902)
Linear drawing and lettering for beginners (1901)
Luthy's scientific handwriting, being an analysis of Roman script form and execution (1918)
Madarasz - Lessons in Advanced Engravers Script
Madarasz Book
Manual of Style
Manual of the lettering scale (1915)
Marks and monograms of early English and continental engravers (1816)
Mechanical drawing lettering, materials and methods (1916)
Metodo Palmer de Caligrafia Comercial
Mills Modern Business Penmanship
Modern lettering, artistic and practical (1913)
Modern show card lettering, designs (1903)
Modern show card lettering, designs and advertising phases (1906)
Modern show card lettering, designs, etc. (1903)
Monograms & ciphers (1906)
Muster Alphabete
New Spencerian Compendium
New Standard Practical Penmanship
New Zanerian Alphabets (1900)
Ninety Five Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship - Jones
Notes on technical sketching and free hand lettering for engineering students (1907)
Noyes Penmanship
Oberlin Compendium
One hundred alphabets for the show card writer (1919)
One hundred loose leaf lessons in lettering with pen and brush (1920)
Oriental Penmanship E.H. Palmer
Palmer Method of Business Writing (1935)
Palmers Penmanship Budget (1919)
Pencil Lettering; Commercial and Advertising Art
Penman's Art Journal Volume 2, Issues 7-8 (October-November 1878)
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette Volume 13, Issues 1-6, 8-12 (January-June, August-December 1889)
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette Volume 14, Issues 1, 3, 6-7, 9-12 (January, March, June, July, September-December 1890)
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette Volume 15, Issues 9, 11-12 (September, November, and December 1891)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 10, Issues 2-3, 5-8, 10-12 (February-March, May-August, October-December 1886)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 10, Issues 4-12 (April-December 1886)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 11, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1887)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 12, Issues 1-11 (January-November 1888)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 7, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1883)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 8, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1884)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 9, Issues 6 and 8 (June, August 1885)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 1, Issues 1-12 (March 1877 - March 1878)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 16, Issues 2-6, 8, 10-12 (February-June, August, October-December 1892)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 17, Issues 1-2 (January-February 1893)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 19, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1895)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 2, Issues 1-9 (April 1878 - December 1878)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 20, Issues 1-12 (January - December 1896)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 21, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1897)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 22, Issues 1-8 (January-August 1898)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 23, Issues 1-12 (September 1898-August 1899)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 24, Issues 1-12 (September 1899-August 1900)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 25, Issues 1-12 (September 1900 - August 1901)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 28, Issues 1-2, 4-12 (September-October 1903, December 1903-August 1904)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 29, Issues 1-12 (September 1904-August 1905)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 3, Issues 1-12 (January 1879 - December 1879)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 30, Issues 1-2 (September-October 1905)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 30, Issues 9-10 (May-June 1906)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 31, Issues 5-8, 10-12 (January-April, June-August 1907)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 32, Issues 1-12 (September 1907-August 1908)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 33, Issues 1-4 (September 1908-December 1908)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 33, Issues 5-12 (January-August 1909)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 34, Issues 1-12 (September 1909-August 1910)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 4, Issues 1-12 (January 1880 - December 1880)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 5, Issues 1-12 (January 1881 - December 1881)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 6, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1882)
Penmans Leisure Hour
Penmanship determining the achievement of elementary school graduates in handwriting (1916)
Penmanship Made Easy (1864)
Penmanship Made Easy - Comer And Linton
Penmanship of the XVI XVII and XVIIIth Centuries
Portfolio of Ornate Penmanship
Practical Penmanship Being A Development of the Carstairian System (1830)
Practical phrases of show card writing (1922)
Practice Makes Perfect- The Art of Calligraphy Exercises in Iran
Presenting the speed-ball pen, with alphabets (1915)
Principesecriture
Printing in relation to graphic art (1903)
Public School Penmanship - Clark
Real Pen Work - Compendium
Real Pen Work
Recueil M‚thodique de Principes d' Ecriture (c1920)
Reinhardt's correspondence course; lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students (1916)
Righthandedness and lefthandedness (1908)
Scrapbook 1
Scrapbook 2
Speedball Text Book - Lettering Poster Design For Pen or Brush
Spencerian key to practical penmanship (1866)
Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship
Standard lettering (1916)
Straight line alphabet for lettering in the grades (1916)
Studies in Pen Art - Dennis
Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Sull Book Volume I
Sykes - Manual of Penmanship (1885)
Tamblyn - How To Become A Good Penman
The American printer - a manual of typography (1871)
The American sign writer; (1877)
The arm movement method of rapid writing (1904)
The art and practice of typography (1917)
The art of lettering and sign painter's manual (1878)
The art of show card writing (1907)
The art of show card writing (1922)
The book of ornamental alphabets (1914)
The embroiderer's book of design (1891)
The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers (1912)
The hand book of mediaeval alphabets and devices (1856)
The Handwriting Movement
The history of ink, including its etymology, chemistry, and bibliography (1894)
The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship (1873)
The penman's hand-book for penmen and students (1883)
The practice of typography; a treatise on title-pages, with numerous illustrations in facsimile (1902)
The practice of typography; modern methods of book composition
The psychology and pedagogy of handwriting (c1920)
The signist's book of modern alphabets (1906)
The Steel Pen Trade - Charles
The Teaching of Handwriting - Freeman
The Teaching of Penmanship - A Manual for Teachers - Houston
The theory and practice of lettering,(1897)
The typography of advertisements (1911)
Theory of Spencerian Penmanship
Theory of The Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship
Thesavro de scrittori (1532) [Italian]
Type specimens for layout, printing, lettering
Walker method of writing for public and private schools (1922)
Webb's useful penmanship being his last work of this kind (1796)
Williams and Packard - Gems of Penmanship
Writing & illuminating & lettering (1906)
Writing and Drawing Made Easy Amusing and Instructive
This extensive collection will feature over 198 vintage books on the topic of penmanship and everything else related - including lessons, guides, and illustrations. Subjects covered includes lettering, alphabets, cyphers, calligraphy, illuminating, monograms, engraving, and more!
Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
19th century swedish copybook
A chapter on lettering (1905)
A few suggestions of plain letterings for artists and others (1908)
A new book of cyphers (1750)
A practical introduction to the study of Japanese writing (1905)
A Roman alphabet and how to use it (1917)
A set of alphabets of all the various hands of modern use (1877)
A system of easy lettering (1911)
A system of easy lettering. With a supplement consisting of eight alphabets (1903)
A text-book of free-hand lettering (1909)
A text-book on plain lettering (1901)
A textbook on lettering and sign painting (1902)
Album de escrita - copybook (1816) [French]
Alphabets Old and New (1902)
Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen (1910)
American Penman and Business Educator Vol 2 Issue 3 (1887)
American Penman Vol 1 (1886)
American Penman Vol 23 Issue 11 (1908)
Ames Guide to Self-Instruction
Ames Notebook
Architectural Drawing and Lettering (1909)
Arm Movement Method - Zaner
Art monograms and lettering
Art of Penmanship - Huntington
Art of Writing - Jenkins
Becker's ornamental penmanship. A series of analytical and finished alphabets (1854)
Book of American Types ATF Standard Faces (1934)
Champion Method of Practical Business Writing
Chapter on lettering 2nd Edition (1906)
Clear type a few suggestions concerning type, letters, books and hand-writing (1907)
Clinton Clark Scrapbook Part 1
Clinton Clark Scrapbook Part 2
Clinton Clark Scrapbook Part 3
Collection of Penmanship - Canan
Compendium of Elegant Writing - Gaskell
Compendium of Real Pen Work (1880)
Compendium of Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship - Spencer
Copybook
Davids' practical letterer; instructions in commercial lettering with brush or pen (1903)
Davignon Lecriture Amercaine
Early typography (1872)
Effective type-use for advertising (1922)
Elements of lettering (1922)
Elements of lettering and sign painting (1899)
Elements of Plane and Solid Free-hand Geometrical Drawing, with Lettering (1878)
Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen (1910)
Fine hand embroidery (1914)
Fleming's self-instructor in business & ornamental penmanship (1906)
Foster - Practical Penmanship
Francis B Courtney Scrapbook
Free-hand Lettering (1912)
Gaskell's guide to writing, pen-flourishing, lettering, business letter-writing, etc (1884)
Gaskells Compendium
Gems of Flourishing - Zaner
Gems of Penmanship - Duncun
Hand lettering (1912)
How to make effective show-cards, off hand card writing and pen lettering (1898)
Kelchner - Complete Compendium of Plain Practical Penmanship
Lessons in Engravers Script
Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship - Bloser
Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship - Zaner
Lessons in Practical Penmanship - Behrensmeyer
Lettering (1916)
Lettering for Beginners (1902)
Lettering for commercial purposes (1918)
Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students (1911)
Lettering for schools and colleges, for the office and workshop (1902)
Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Lettering of working drawings (1894)
Lettering set
Letters & lettering; a treatise with 200 examples (1902)
Linear drawing and lettering for beginners (1901)
Luthy's scientific handwriting, being an analysis of Roman script form and execution (1918)
Madarasz - Lessons in Advanced Engravers Script
Madarasz Book
Manual of Style
Manual of the lettering scale (1915)
Marks and monograms of early English and continental engravers (1816)
Mechanical drawing lettering, materials and methods (1916)
Metodo Palmer de Caligrafia Comercial
Mills Modern Business Penmanship
Modern lettering, artistic and practical (1913)
Modern show card lettering, designs (1903)
Modern show card lettering, designs and advertising phases (1906)
Modern show card lettering, designs, etc. (1903)
Monograms & ciphers (1906)
Muster Alphabete
New Spencerian Compendium
New Standard Practical Penmanship
New Zanerian Alphabets (1900)
Ninety Five Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship - Jones
Notes on technical sketching and free hand lettering for engineering students (1907)
Noyes Penmanship
Oberlin Compendium
One hundred alphabets for the show card writer (1919)
One hundred loose leaf lessons in lettering with pen and brush (1920)
Oriental Penmanship E.H. Palmer
Palmer Method of Business Writing (1935)
Palmers Penmanship Budget (1919)
Pencil Lettering; Commercial and Advertising Art
Penman's Art Journal Volume 2, Issues 7-8 (October-November 1878)
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette Volume 13, Issues 1-6, 8-12 (January-June, August-December 1889)
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette Volume 14, Issues 1, 3, 6-7, 9-12 (January, March, June, July, September-December 1890)
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette Volume 15, Issues 9, 11-12 (September, November, and December 1891)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 10, Issues 2-3, 5-8, 10-12 (February-March, May-August, October-December 1886)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 10, Issues 4-12 (April-December 1886)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 11, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1887)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 12, Issues 1-11 (January-November 1888)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 7, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1883)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 8, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1884)
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide Volume 9, Issues 6 and 8 (June, August 1885)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 1, Issues 1-12 (March 1877 - March 1878)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 16, Issues 2-6, 8, 10-12 (February-June, August, October-December 1892)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 17, Issues 1-2 (January-February 1893)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 19, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1895)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 2, Issues 1-9 (April 1878 - December 1878)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 20, Issues 1-12 (January - December 1896)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 21, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1897)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 22, Issues 1-8 (January-August 1898)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 23, Issues 1-12 (September 1898-August 1899)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 24, Issues 1-12 (September 1899-August 1900)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 25, Issues 1-12 (September 1900 - August 1901)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 28, Issues 1-2, 4-12 (September-October 1903, December 1903-August 1904)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 29, Issues 1-12 (September 1904-August 1905)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 3, Issues 1-12 (January 1879 - December 1879)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 30, Issues 1-2 (September-October 1905)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 30, Issues 9-10 (May-June 1906)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 31, Issues 5-8, 10-12 (January-April, June-August 1907)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 32, Issues 1-12 (September 1907-August 1908)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 33, Issues 1-4 (September 1908-December 1908)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 33, Issues 5-12 (January-August 1909)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 34, Issues 1-12 (September 1909-August 1910)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 4, Issues 1-12 (January 1880 - December 1880)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 5, Issues 1-12 (January 1881 - December 1881)
Penman's Art Journal Volume 6, Issues 1-12 (January-December 1882)
Penmans Leisure Hour
Penmanship determining the achievement of elementary school graduates in handwriting (1916)
Penmanship Made Easy (1864)
Penmanship Made Easy - Comer And Linton
Penmanship of the XVI XVII and XVIIIth Centuries
Portfolio of Ornate Penmanship
Practical Penmanship Being A Development of the Carstairian System (1830)
Practical phrases of show card writing (1922)
Practice Makes Perfect- The Art of Calligraphy Exercises in Iran
Presenting the speed-ball pen, with alphabets (1915)
Principesecriture
Printing in relation to graphic art (1903)
Public School Penmanship - Clark
Real Pen Work - Compendium
Real Pen Work
Recueil M‚thodique de Principes d' Ecriture (c1920)
Reinhardt's correspondence course; lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students (1916)
Righthandedness and lefthandedness (1908)
Scrapbook 1
Scrapbook 2
Speedball Text Book - Lettering Poster Design For Pen or Brush
Spencerian key to practical penmanship (1866)
Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship
Standard lettering (1916)
Straight line alphabet for lettering in the grades (1916)
Studies in Pen Art - Dennis
Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Sull Book Volume I
Sykes - Manual of Penmanship (1885)
Tamblyn - How To Become A Good Penman
The American printer - a manual of typography (1871)
The American sign writer; (1877)
The arm movement method of rapid writing (1904)
The art and practice of typography (1917)
The art of lettering and sign painter's manual (1878)
The art of show card writing (1907)
The art of show card writing (1922)
The book of ornamental alphabets (1914)
The embroiderer's book of design (1891)
The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers (1912)
The hand book of mediaeval alphabets and devices (1856)
The Handwriting Movement
The history of ink, including its etymology, chemistry, and bibliography (1894)
The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship (1873)
The penman's hand-book for penmen and students (1883)
The practice of typography; a treatise on title-pages, with numerous illustrations in facsimile (1902)
The practice of typography; modern methods of book composition
The psychology and pedagogy of handwriting (c1920)
The signist's book of modern alphabets (1906)
The Steel Pen Trade - Charles
The Teaching of Handwriting - Freeman
The Teaching of Penmanship - A Manual for Teachers - Houston
The theory and practice of lettering,(1897)
The typography of advertisements (1911)
Theory of Spencerian Penmanship
Theory of The Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship
Thesavro de scrittori (1532) [Italian]
Type specimens for layout, printing, lettering
Walker method of writing for public and private schools (1922)
Webb's useful penmanship being his last work of this kind (1796)
Williams and Packard - Gems of Penmanship
Writing & illuminating & lettering (1906)
Writing and Drawing Made Easy Amusing and Instructive