The Missing Ink : The Lost Art of Handwriting (Hardcover)

from ElizabethBevins

Given the title of this book you would think it would be about the art of handwriting. This is actually a more anecdotal and introspective story of penmanship through the ages. The author's relationship to handwriting and interviews with anonymous random people seem to be the focus of this book. ...

from elizabeth.b.bevins

Given the title of this book you would think it would be about the art of handwriting. This is actually a more anecdotal and introspective story of penmanship through the ages. The author's relationship to handwriting and interviews with anonymous random people seem to be the focus of this book. ...

from laerm

There's a blurb on the book, saying the author is "like a charming dinner guest." If you think this guy's charming, then you must have grown up in a house of backstabbing, petty, whiny snobs.

from kukulaj

I love handwriting so I enjoyed this book well enough but really it is a bit of a disorganized ramble. I've read a few books on the history of handwriting but still I did learn a few things. I guess this is just a stylistic thing. This book is like Hensher just wandering around in the fields and ...

from GeoffSC

An analysis of where handwriting has come from and where it is going today.It would be a shame for the art of handwriting to disappear. It made me resolve to do more hand writing.