Page title is misleading: some entries may be about writing Greek, others about calligraphy, yet others merely examples of writing Greek; but this would be the appropriate context. =====books pre-1900===== **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 [[:library: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 =====books post-1900===== **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 [[:library: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 [[:library: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