[Scriptoris] Buying Books

[M TURNAGE]

Greetings Megan,

>From where do you hail?  Ansteorra is quite a long distance from Australia.

In service,
Baroness Ceinwen~


>From: "Velvet Claw" <a_velvet_claw at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
>To: <SCA_Scribes_and_Illumination at yahoogroups.com>,        "scribes" 
><Scribes at castle.org>, <DecorativeLettering at yahoogroups.com>,        
><Scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Scriptoris] Buying Books
>Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:09:21 +1100
>
>Dear Scribes,
>
>     I have talked about taking my superannuation out under the Disability 
>allowances, and lo and behold - it has arrived in my bank account!
>
>     I have been working on a wish list of books for many months, and was 
>planning to buy them Used from Amazon, except for a few that Meisterin 
>Katarina has been incredibly kind enough to find for me at lower priced US 
>stores.
>
>     I ordered a few books as an initial order from Amazon the other day - 
>poetry and cooking (yay Moosewood!) books, and to my horror, was charged 
>$US10 shipping and handling from each of the second hand book shop owners 
>on each book on top of the actual book price! It ain't easy being green, 
>and it ain't easy if you don't live in the U.S. (or England)
>
>      There are copies available of some of the books I want available in 
>Australia, but because they are in limited supply, they cost heaps. And 
>heaps. (believe me, I've been looking)
>
>      So here I am.
>
>      *** do you have any books that you want to sell? **
>
>      I am happy to pay a good price for them - at very least the Used 
>price given on Amazon, but if I can buy then privately, I can at least get 
>them surface shipping, and save an awful lot of money on the shipping - 
>which is kind of 'throwing money to the wind' - all too literally! It's not 
>like I can read and absorb them all at once!
>
>      I know John Neal (Hi John!) has some of these books - but if I can 
>pay less for Used copies that are gathering dust on a shelf, all the 
>better. So do Paper Ink Arts.
>
>      My "I have to have or I'll just die" list is below. I'm using a 
>significant proportion of my super money to buy books that are meant to set 
>me up in a Calligraphy library more or less for life.
>
>      My complete list is on Amazon - if you go to Amazon, and search on 
>the Wishlist for "Megan Mason"
>(Mason is my middle name) you'll see another couple of pages of books!
>
>     I've looked and can't find the 'Find a Wish List" thingy on Amazon's 
>home page, so if you have any troubles finding it, or getting into Amazon, 
>and have books you want to sell, please feel very very free to e-mail me
>and I'll send you a Word document with the complete list of titles.
>
>     Essential books
>=================
>
>* Drollery Designs in Illuminated Manuscripts :  Muriel Parker
>
>* Image on the Edge : The Margins of Medieval  :  Michael Camille
>
>* Medieval Beasts :  Ann Payne
>
>* Historical Scripts - From Classical Times to the Renaissance : Stan 
>Knight. 1998 edition.
>
>* The Calligrapher’s Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them : 
>David Harris. 2003.
>
>* Explicato Formarum Litterarum: The Unfolding of Letterforms : Rutherford 
>Aris
>
>* Lettering : Degering, Hermann.
>
>* The Art of Color Calligraphy - A Complete Sourcebook of Color Calligraphy 
>Techniques : Mary Noble and Adrian Waddington.
>
>* The Illuminated Alphabet, : Timothy Noad and Patricia Seligman.
>          which is an earlier edition of
>     The Art of Illuminated Letters 1994 (either I think. I haven't been 
>able to find mention of any differences)
>
>* The Encyclopedia Of Calligraphy: A Step-by Step Visual Guide, with an 
>Inspirational Gallery of Finished Works : Mary Noble, Janet Mehigan
>
>*Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking 
>At...) : Michelle P. Brown
>
>* The Decorated Letter : Alexander, J.J.G.
>
>* Paint Your Own Illuminated Letters : Stefan Oliver
>
>* Calligraphy and Illumination: A History and Practical Guide : Patricia 
>Lovett
>       or it’s British title - Calligraphy, Illumination and Heraldry
>
>* The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times 
>Illustrated by Borders, Initial Letters, and Alphabets : Timms
>
>* Humanistic script of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : Alfred J 
>Fairbank
>
>*An Italic Copybook: The Cataneo Manuscript : Stephen Harvard,
>
>* Three Classics of Italian Calligraphy (The Writing Books of Arrighi, 
>Tagliente, Palatino), : Ogg, Oscar.
>
>* First Writing Book -  an English Translation and Facsimile : J. H. Benson
>
>* The Illuminated Page - Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting : Janet 
>Backhouse.
>
>* Books of Hours. : Janet Backhouse
>
>* The Luttrell Psalter : Janet Backhouse
>
>* A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (2nd ed – 1997), : De Hamel, 
>Christopher.
>
>* Illuminated Manuscripts: The Exquisite Art of the Medieval Masterpiece, 
>Gill, D.M.
>
>* Codices Illustres: The World’s Most Famous Manuscripts  : Ingo F. 
>Walther, Norbert Wolf
>
>* The Medieval Book : Shailor, Barbara
>
>* Brush Lettering : Eliza Schulte and Marilyn Reaves. 1992.
>
>* Illuminated Lettering (A Beginner’s Art Guide) : Marie Lynskey
>
>  You can see they are mainly technique books, so at worse I can work from 
>manuscripts on-line whilst actually  having books on technique.
>
>Your help in this (enormous) task is very very greatly appreciated.
>
>Best,
>
>Megan (velvet claw)
>
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