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About this book

Graily Hewitt was the calligrapher other calligraphers studied — and his 1930 Lettering for Students and Craftsmen is the book he wrote for everyone else. Across 346 pages, this formal lettering classic teaches inscriptional lettering as a serious craft: Roman capitals drawn with understanding, spacing rooted in centuries of stone-cut precedent, and the disciplined hand behind beautiful letters.

Hewitt, who taught at London's Central School of Arts and Crafts and helped revive fine calligraphy in England, writes for both the classroom student and the working craftsman — the stone carver, the sign writer, the illuminator, the designer. His pages move from the skeleton of the Roman alphabet through constructed and free letterforms, always with an eye on letters that must live in real materials: carved in stone, painted on wood, or written on vellum.

For modern letterers, stone carvers, sign painters, and calligraphers, this 1930 manual is a deep well. The Roman capital instruction alone repays the price — these are the letterforms behind every inscriptional alphabet still in use — and Hewitt's craftsman perspective keeps the teaching grounded in work, not theory. It completes the other end of the trade from the show-card manuals: the formal, the monumental, the permanent.

Whether you cut letters in stone, paint them on glass, or study the history of lettering, Hewitt's book belongs on the shelf. A 346-page masterclass from one of the twentieth century's great lettering teachers.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 346 pages, black and white interior, cream paper.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1930 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1930 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1930 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

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