Visiting Edward Johnston

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Notes

¹ Just nine A4 sheets.

² Now held at the Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

³ Eventually published posthumously as Edward Johnston, Formal Penmanship and other papers, Heather Child (ed.) (London: Lund Humphries, 1971).

⁴ Calligraphers will know Hubert Wellington from his later marriage to Irene Wellington, née Bass.

⁵ Alice Laura Vansittart née Strettell (1850–1927), writer and designer, wife to critic and dramatist J. Comyns Carr. She lived in South Kensington.

⁶ This was a hand Johnston had devised as a teaching hand; through it he communicated essential lessons about the use of the broad-edge pen and how to write a consistent and related set of letters.

⁷ Katherine Kendall, a musician; they shared a home at Turville Heath, Henley-on-Thames.

⁸ One of the corollaries of this proposition is that it allows an artisan to take a line measured into 12 parts and then, using that line, to make a triangle whose sides measure 3, 4 and 5 parts, respectively; this always creates an exact right angle as one of the triangles corners, a crucial ability when laying out the plan of a building.

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