Author’s And the beginner by setting himself specific tasks

Preface (for example : making a MS. book for a specific pur¬

pose—see p. 66) should give reality to his work.
As a craftsman in Lettering he might get work in
some of the directions mentioned in pp. 301-5.

Although the demand for good work is at present
limited, the production of good work will inevitably
create a demand ; and, finally, the value of Quality
is always recognized—sooner or later, but inevitably
—and whatever “practical” reasons we may hear
urged in favour of Quantity, the value of Quality is
gaining recognition every day in commerce and even
in art, and there or here, sooner or later we shall
know that we can afford the best.

EDWARD JOHNSTON

My thanks are due to Mr. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, to Mr.
Emery Walker, and to Mr. George Allen for quotations: to
Mr. Graily Hewitt, to Mr. Douglas Cockerell, to Mr. A. E. R.
Gill, to Mr. C. M. Firth, and to Mr. G. Loumyer, for special
contributions on gilding, binding, and inscription-cutting: to
Mr. S. C. Cockerell for several of the plates': to Mr. W. H.
Cowlishaw, to the Rev. Dr. T. K. Abbott, to Dr. F. S. Kenyon
of the New Palæographical Society, to the Vicar of Holy Trinity
Church, Hastings, to the Secretary of the Board of Education,
S. Kensington, to Mr. H. Yates Thompson, to Mr. G. H. Powell,
and to others, for permission to reproduce photographs, &c. :
and to Mr. Noel Rooke and Mr. Godfrey J. Hogg for assistance
with the illustrations and many other matters: I should like,
moreover, to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. W. R.
Lethaby and Mr. S. C. Cockerell for encouragement and advice
in years past. E. J.

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ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA

P. 17. Beginners practising large writing may more Addenda &
easily use a thin, or diluted, ink: in small Corrigenda
writing this does not show up the faults
with sufficient clearness.

P. 25. Quills often have a sort of skin (which tends
to make a ragged nib); this should be
scraped off the back.

Pp. 29 Until the simple pen-stroke forms are mas-
& tered, the pen should be used without

39. appreciable pressure. With practice one

gains sleight of hand (pp. 51, 275), and
slightly changing pressures & quick move¬
ments on to the corners, or points, of the
nib are used. The forms in the best MSS.
shew such variations; e.g. the Uncials in
fig. 5 appear to have been made with vary¬
ing pressure (perhaps with a soft reed) &
their fine finishing-strokes with the nib-
point {comp, forms in fig. 146). Versals
likewise shew varying, and sometimes
uncertain, structures that suggest a form
consisting of strokes other than definite
pen strokes.

P. 30. An ordinary strong nib may be sharpened
several times, before it is re-cut, by paring
it underneath (fig. a). The extra fine nib

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