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Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting
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Author
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Kitty Burns Florey.
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Melville House
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hardcover
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8.5
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7.3
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0.75
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ISBN
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9781933633671
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190/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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23293
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Steeped in the Palmer Method of Handwriting at Catholic school (just as she was with sentence diagrams in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog), Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed "penmanship nut" who loves the act of taking pen to paper. Here she tackles the importance of writing by hand and its place in our increasingly electronic society in a beautifully presented exploration of the history and science of handwriting. Florey considers the evolution of writing implements and scripts, pen-collecting societies, the golden age of American penmanship, the growth in popularity of handwriting analysis, and the many aficionados who still prefer scribbling on paper to tapping on keys. "Florey's argument is nostalgic yet pragmatic. 'It seems wrong,' she says, 'when something beautiful, useful, and historically important vanishes.' Charmingly composed and handsomely presented, Script and Scribble just might provoke a handwriting revival."—Boston Globe
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