📚 Handwriting

The personal script: its instruction manuals, the penmanship controversies, and its forensic use.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject handwriting 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
	Nelson handwriting	Louis Fidge	1997	34
	Gaelic	Roderick Mackinnon	1971	14
	New Nelson handwriting	Peter Smith	1984	9
	The psychology of handwriting	Robert Saudek	1925	7
	Personality in Handwriting a Handbook of American	Alfred O. Mendel	1947	7
	The handwriting of English documents	L. C. Hector	1958	5
	Applied penmanship	Luther H. Lyon	1953	4
	Better handwriting for you	J. Kendrick Noble	1966	4
	Psychologie de l'écriture	Jean-Charles Gille-Maisani	1969	4
	Handwriting analysis	Andrea McNichol	1991	4
	Psychology and pedagogy of writing	Mary Elizabeth Thompson	1911	3
	Handwriting analysis	M. N. Bunker	1959	3
	Understanding colonial handwriting	Harriet Stryker-Rodda	1986	3
	Payson, Dunton & Scribner's national writing tablets	J. W. Payson	1863	2
	Caligraphy considered as affording an exhibition of character	Harris, George	1875	2
	Zur Psychologie des Schreibens	William T. Preyer	1895	2
	Handwriting	E. A. Lowe	1926	2
	Handschriftendeutung auf tiefenpsychologischer Grundlage	Ania Teillard	1952	2
	Monogramm-Lexikon	Franz Goldstein	1964	2
	Handwriting in psychological interpretations	Arthur G. Holt	1965	2
	ABC de la graphologie	J. Crépieux-Jamin	1970	2
	How to Read Old Documents	E. E. Thoyts	1980	2
	If I can, you can decipher Germanic records	Edna M. Bentz	1982	2
	D'Nealian handwriting ABC book	Donald N. Thurber	1992	2
	New Nelson Handwriting Cursive	Peter Smith	1993	2
	Do You Read Me?: Famous Cases Solved by Handwriting Analysis! (24/7: Science Behind the Scenes: Forensic Files)	Diane Webber	2007	2
	Kunst- Schreib und Zeichenbuch	Johann Merken	1827	1
	Account of the alleged art of reading the characters of individuals in their handwriting, showing the physiological grounds of that kind of chiromancy	William Seller	1845	1
	Caligraphy and character	Thomas Madden Stone	1845	1
	Die Schrift : Grundz©ơge ihrer Physiologie und Pathologie	Erlenmeyer Albrecht	1879	1

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

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