Penman, Printer, and Engraver

Duration: 1008 ft.

Year Published: 1982

Creator: Chatsworth Film Distributors Ltd

Complete Record: Deals with the making of books and the chair libraries, how the scribe corrected his errors, the Gothic and Italic script, the development of printing, cooperative engraving, copperplate handwriting and the birth of the steel nib. Calligrapher Donald Jackson traces the development of the alphabet from the Middle Ages to the invention of the printing press to advances in making portable pens during the Victorian period. Narrated by Susannah York. Part of “Alphabet - The Story of Writing”.

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