📚 Calligraphy

Writing as visual art: the brush traditions of East Asia, the Islamic hand, and the medieval revival.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject calligraphy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Writing & illuminating, & lettering	Edward Johnston	1906	46
	The book of ornamental alphabets, ancient and mediaeval, from the eighth century	Freeman Delamotte	1858	12
	Calligraphy today	Heather Child	1962	12
	Calligraphic lettering with wide pen & brush	Ralph Douglass	1949	10
	The universal penman	George Bickham	1733	9
	Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth centuries	Lewis Foreman Day	1911	8
	Calligraphy	Caroline Young	1990	8
	Borders for calligraphy	Margaret Shepherd	1980	7
	Calligraphy	Fiona Campbell	1998	7
	Of the just shaping of letters	Albrecht Dürer	1917	6
	Pen lettering	Ann Camp	1958	6
	2,000 years of calligraphy	Baltimore Museum of Art.	1965	6
	The Calligrapher's Project Book	Susanne Haines	1987	6
	Advanced Calligraphy Techniques	Diana Hoare	1989	6
	The encyclopedia of calligraphy techniques	Diana Hardy Wilson	1990	6
	Calligraphy projects	Fiona Watt	1994	6
	The complete book of calligraphy	Emma Macalik Butterworth	1980	5
	Calligraphy made easy	Gaynor Goffe	1994	5
	Calligraphy for kids	Eleanor Winters	2004	5
	Three classics of Italian calligraphy	Oscar Ogg	1953	4
	Written Letters	Jacqueline Svaren	1975	4
	Calligraphic Styles	Tom Gourdie	1979	4
	Calligraphy made easy	Margaret Shepherd	1981	4
	Italic letters	Inga Dubay	1984	4
	Calligraphy in ten easy lessons	Eleanor Winters	1984	4
	Lettering & calligraphy	Joan Freeman	1984	4
	Calligraphy	Patricia Lovett	1993	4
	Celebration calligraphy	Ruth Booth	2008	4
	Modern calligraphy	Molly Suber Thorpe	2013	4
	Calligraphy	Arthur Baker	1940	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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