Alphabet: The Story of Writing pt. 3 and 4 by Donald Jackson

Alphabet: the story of writing by Donald Jackson (1980). Part III: Penman, printer, and engraver · fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscript books · Gothic script · Italic (chancery) script · the printing press – printing on an iron hand press, without using the tympan · copy books · copper-plate engraving – close-up of an engraver at work with flat bed cylinder presses working in the background and a copper plate being inked and printed Part 4: Writing: everybody’s art · examples of pen labels · e