Champion 1794 New and complete alphabets in all the various hands of Great Britain, with the Greek, Hebrew, and German characters; by Joseph Champion, writing master and accountant. Lauries & Whitle, London | engraved by Jn Howard | poor condition

Pantographia 1799 Edmund Fry Pantographia: containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world (etc.). Cooper & Wilson, London | several inscriptional, script, and other typefaces; one uncial, then seven text typefaces; 39 in all [listed also in books on typography and typeface design pre-ISBN

Porson 1831 John Hodgkin A set of Greek copies; written by John Hodgkin, conformably to the plan adopted by Professor Porson. Harvey & Darton, London | engraved by J Hemingway | small landscape format, trimmed | examples of writing, plus listing of Greek numerals with oddly placed koronis

Porson 1835 John Hodgkin Specimens of Greek penmanship, with directions for forming the characters according to the methods adopted by Professor Porson and Dr Thomas Young. Darton & Harvey, London | engraved by H Ashby | on title-page: “A new edition” | directions for writing Greek, with examples, and an analysis of lower-case stroke sequences | includes a table of ligatures

Art of writing 1855 Henry Noel Humphreys The origin and progress of the art of writing: a connected narrative. 2nd ed. Day & Son, London | cover boards missing

Sitterly 1898 Charles F Sitterly Praxis in manuscripts of the Greek Testament. 3rd ed. Eaton & Mains, New York

Proctor 1900 Robert Proctor The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press | exceptional range of blocks, but printed somewhat heavily

Theocritus 1930 Arthur S Hunt & John Johnson (eds) Two Theocritus papyri. Egypt Exploration Society, London

Estienne 1949 Mark Pattison he Estiennes. Book Club of California, San Francisco | includes tipped in threes leaves: from Egregii Patris Ricardi de Superdivina Trinitate (Henri Estienne 1510); from Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicæ Demonstationis (Robert Estienne 1545), all in the grec-du-roi; and from Dionis Cassii Romanorum Historiarum (Henri II Estienne 1592), Greek and Latin in two columns [listed also in books on typography and typeface design pre-ISBN

Fell 1953 Stanley Morison Notes on the ancient typographical materials principally collected and bequethed to the University of Oxford by Dr John Fell d. 1686. “Printed privately” | Three paperbound booklets: I. Types for Latin and the vernacular; Blackletter, Roman, Italic | II. Greek | III. Flowers | Greek shows accents and ligatures | [listed also in books on typography and typeface design pre-ISBN

Greek literary hands 1956 C H Roberts Greek literary hands 350 BC – AD 400. Oxford at the Clarendon Press | part of Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks series

Greek papyri 1968 E G Turner Greek papyri: an introduction. Oxford at the Clarendon Press

Wilson 1973 Nigel Wilson Mediaeval Greek bookhands: examples selected from Greek manuscripts in Oxford libraries. The Mediaeval Academy of America, Cambridge MA | 2 vols: text and plates

Repertorium 1989 (Vienna) Ernst Gamillscheg & Dieter Harlfinger (eds) Repertorium der Griechischen Kopisten 800–1600; 2. Frankreich. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. | Three volumes, comprising an index of scribes, transcription of hands, and plates | gift of JH 2006

Barker 1992 Nicolas Barker Aldus Manutius and the development of Greek scipt & type in the fifteenth century. 2nd ed | Fordham University Press, New York | includes useful images of manuscripts and a transcription of the range of written forms, arranged per letter