The main CPS library has been sold for donations, however a few books remain and are available to view at workshops.
We do not charge members for borrowing items from the libraries, but please ensure that you return them in a timely fashion so that other members may benefit from the books as well. Remember to sign any books in and out so that we know where they are.
Thank you
The wife of the late CPS member Augusto Fiorani kindly donated all his calligraphy books to The Cinque Ports Scribes. These are held as a separate library by Els Van Den Steen and may also be borrowed by members
Please contact Els or a committee member if you wish to borrow a particular book.
Format: Title, Author
Advanced Calligraphy Techniques, Diana Hoare
Alphabet and Elements of Lettering – The, Frederic W Goudy
Alphabet at Work, William Gardner
Anatomy of letters – The, Charles Pearce
Annals of Printing, W T Berry & H E Poole
Art of Calligraphy – The, Marie Angel
Art of Colour Calligraphy – The, Mary Noble & Adrian Waddington
Art of Fine Lettering – The, Sister Michaeline Lesiak
Art of Illuminated Lettering & Heraldry – The, Barbara Bundy
Art of Limming – The, Pub SSI
Artist & Alphabet – 20th Century Calligraphy
Beautiful Alphabet – The, Johannes Muess
Beginner’s Guide to Calligraphy, Janet Mehigan & Mary Noble
Beyone Words – Exhibition catalogue, University of Sunderland
Black Letter Primer – Gothic Letters, Paul Shaw
Book Illumination in the Middle Ages, Otto Pacht
Book of Formal Scripts – A, John Woodcock
Book of Kells – The, Bernard Meehan
Book of Scripts – A (2 copies 1960 & 1977), Alfred Fairbank
Books Boxes and Portfolios, Franz Zeier
Brush Lettering – An instructional manual, Marilyn Reaves & Eliza Schulte
Calligrapher’s Bible – The, David Harris
Calligrapher’s Dictionary – The, Rose Folsom
Calligraphy – easel does it, Nancy Ouchida-Howells
Calligraphy for the beginner, Tom Gourdie
Calligrapher’s Handbook – The, Heather Child
Calligraphy in Graphic Arts, Michael Harvey
Calligraphy: Inspiration Innovation Communication, David Harris
Calligraphy of Lloyd J Reynolds – The, Gunderson & Lehman
Calligraphic Swash Italics, Arthur Baker
Calligraphy Manual – The, Arthur Baker
Calligraphy of the Middle Ages – How to, Marc Drogin
Calligraphy Sample – The, Charles Pearce
Calligraphy – Stroke by Stroke, Annie Moring
Calligraphy Teacher’s Manual – A, Cape Calligraphy Teacher’s Guild
Calligraphy Techniques to get you started, Maureen Sullivan
Calligraphy Techniques, John Lancaster
Calligraphy Today (1976), Heather Child
Calligraphy, Claude Mediavilla
Calligraphy Art and Colour, Peter Halliday
Calligraphy Illumination & Heraldry, Patricia Lovett
Calligraphy A guide to Hand Lettering, Margaret Morgan
Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Painting, Carl Nordenfalk
Celtic Art: Methods of Construction, George Bain
Celtic Calligraphy, Vivien Lunniss
Celtic Design & Ornament for Calligraphers, Jack Mackinder
Celtic Design: A Beginner’s Manual, Aidan Meehan
Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters, Aidan Meehan
Celtic Design: Knotwork, Aidan Meehan
Celtic Hand – Stroke by Stroke, Arthur Baker
Celtic Illumination, Courtney Davis
Celtic Illumination: The Irish School, Courtney Davis
Celtic Knots, Aidan Meehan
Character – The, John Stevens
Complete Calligrapher – The, Frederick Wong
Complete Guide to Heraldry – A, A C Fox-Davies
Contemporary British Lettering (1984), Michael Taylor Rare Books
Copybook of Renaissance Calligraphy, Arthur Baker
Craft of Calligraphy – The, Dorothy Mahoney
Creative Calligraphy (Instructions & Alphabets), Hermann Zapf
Creative Calligraphy, Marie Lynskey
Creative Lettering & Calligraphy, Peter Halliday
Creative Lettering Today, Michael Harvey
Creative Stroke – The, Richard Emery
Draw your own Celtic Designs, David James
Encyclopedia of Calligraphy & Illumination – The, Janet Mehigan & Mary Noble
Encyclopedia of Calligraphy Techniques – The, Diana Hardy Wilson
Examples of Handwriting 1550-1650, W S B Buck
F W Tamblyn’s Home Instructor in Penmanship, Pub: Ziller
Formal Penmanship & Other pages, Edward Johnston
Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting, Richard Marks & Nigel Morgan
Guide to Heraldry – A, Ottfriend Neubecker
Hand Lettering for Crafts, Sandra Salamony
Handbook for students of Calligraphy, David Nicholls
Handmade Books and Albums, Mary Ryst
Handwriting for Today, Tom Gourdie
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History, Tamara Plakins Thornton
Handwriting: Everyone’s Art, Timothy Wilcox & Ewan Clayton
Historical Scripts (Classical to Renaissance), Stan Knight
Historical Source Book for Scribes – The, M Brown & P Lovett
History & Technique of Lettering – The, Alexander Nesbitt
Now to become a professional Calligrapher, Stuart David
Humanistic Script of the 15th & 16th Centuries, Fairbank & Hunt
Illuminated Alphabet – The, Timothy Noad
Illuminated Manuscripts exhibited in Grenville, Published by British Library
Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Mjr Abbey, Alexander & de la Mare
Italian Renaissance Illuminations, J J G Alexander
Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting, Inga Dubay & Barbara Getty
Italic Notebook – An, Abraham Lincoln
Italic Writing – a concise guide, W M Aaron
Lessons in Formal Writing, Edward Johnston
Lettercraft, John R Biggs
Lettering, Graily Hewitt
Letters, James Hutchinson
Letters Lines Images, International Exhibition Catalogue
Lindesfarne Gospels – The, Janet Backhouse
Long Tradition – The, Oxford Scribes
Manual of Calligraphy – A, Peter Taylor
Mastering Calligraphy, Timothy Noad
Medieval Calligraphy, Marc Drogin
Medieval Rural Life in Luttrell Psalter, Janet Backhouse
Messiah, Timothy Botts
Miniature dei corali per il Duomo di Siena, Enzo Carli
Modern Scribes & Lettering Artists 1 (1980), Pub: Cassell
Modern Scribes & Lettering Artists 2 (1986), Pub: Trefoil Books
More than Fine Writing: Irene Wellington, Child Collins Hechle & Jackson
Mystic Art of Written Forms – The, Frederich Neugebauer
Of the Just Shaping of Letters, Albrecht Durer
One Hundred Great Calligraphy Tips, Judy Kastin
Pages from Illuminated Lettering, Archibald Knox
Paint your own Illuminated Letters, Stefan Oliver
Painted Labyrinth – Lindesfarne Gospels, Michelle Brown
Painting with Words, Donald Jackson
Pen Lettering, Ann Camp
Pointed Brush Writing Manual, Fran Strom
Practical Calligraphy, John Nash & Gerald Fleuss
Practical Gilding, Peter & Ann MacTaggart
Practical Guide to Calligraphy, Rosemary Sassoon
Painting for Calligraphers, Marie Angel
Primio Belle Lettre Awards, Ed: Carlo Buffa
Roman Lettering, L C Evetts
Roman Writing Tables from Vindolanda – The, Alan K Bowman
Scribe (A scribe’s notebook), George L Thomson
Scribes & Illuminators, Christopher de Hamel
Scribes & Sources (Chancery Hand), Osley & Wolpe
Scripsit: Winter 1999 Vol 21 No2, Washington Calligraphers Guild
Script Lettering for Artists, Tommy Thompson
Secreta (3 methods of laying gold leaf), Joyce Grafe
Sixty Alphabets, Gunnlaugur S E Brienn
Spencarian Penmanship, Pub: Mott Media
Spencarian Script & Ornamental Penmanship, Michael Sull
Spirit of Calligraphy – The, Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild
Starting Calligraphy, Tom Barnard
Step by Step Calligraphy, Susan Hufton
Step by Step Creative Calligraphy, John Smith
Teach Calligraphy? Who me?, Betty J Locke
Teach yourself Calligraphy, Patricia Lovett
Technique of Copperplate Calligraphy – The, Gordon Turner
Technique of Raised Gilding – The, Jerry Tresser
Three Classics of Italian Calligraphy, Dover Publications
Uncommon Numbers Manual – The, Ed: Brenda Casey
Unfolding of Letterforms (1st – 15th Century), Rutherford Aris
Universal Penman – The, George Bickham
Usborne Complete Book of Calligraphy, Caroline Young
Wedding (invitations announcements etc), Bette Matthews
William Gardner’s Book of Calligraphy
Written Letters – 22 Alphabets for Calligraphers, Jaqueline Svaren
Written Letters – 33 Alphabets for Calligraphers, Jaqueline Svaren