About this title: Steeped in the Palmer Method of Handwriting she learned in Catholic school, Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed "penmanship nut" who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So when she discovered that schools today forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called "keyboarding," it gave her pause: "There is a widespread belief that, in a digital world, forming letters on paper with a pen is pointless and obsolete," she says, "and anyone who thinks otherwise is right up there with folks who still have fallout shelters in their backyards." Florey tackles the importance of ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Melville Pubns, Chemainus, British Columbia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781933633671ISBN:1933633670
Description: Fine. Advance softcover proof. A history of handwriting. Interestingly designed with Chapter Notes in margins. Unread, as new. 190 pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Melville House Pub
Date Published: 2009-01-20
ISBN-13:9781933633671ISBN:1933633670
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Melville House
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781933633671ISBN:1933633670
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"Kitty Burns Florey gives the first half of the book an excellent history of handwriting (think utensils, ink, paper, and handwriting style) with a few doses of wit thrown in.
It only seemed to drag at the chapter on graphology (which I believe to be about 90% baloney). but a little knowledge on it's few colorful characters still seemed to entertain.
I had hoped that she would have expounded a little more on the necessity of handwriting compared to today's writing technology, but it only seems that her analysis was saved for the last two pages of the book.
As for the book itself, it's pleasant to look at with a few illustrations (many humorous). My only gripe is that in the first chapter the footnotes were numbered wrong. I consider this to be pretty glaring because her footnotes are where most of the humor and interesting tidbits of info come from.
...and she's a copy editor by trade.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in why their handwriting looks the way it does."
"A short history of handwriting with special attention paid to the historical Spencerian and Palmer methods and what is being used now. I would have enjoyed this more if not for the misnumbered footnotes and other errors in printing."
"I enjoyed this book very much, and I am so sorry the publisher, Melville House Publishing (Brooklyn, NY) did not do the book justice in printing it. I like the book's shape, which is almost square, and allows the author's notes to be placed in the margins, where they are much more useful (in my opinion) than at the bottom of the page. The problem is that the numbering goes off almost immediately, so the note on p. 55 is 19, although the number for the footnote in the text on that page is 17. In some cases, like on pgs. 30 and 31, the illustration is printed over the text, obscuring a line or two of the author's message. I longed for a glossary, but didn't get one, so ended up with Post-It notes connecting me to pages with words I needed to revisit, like "ligatures" on p. 38. And finally, please, I would like an index. This book deserves an index, at the very least, and I know it costs a publisher extra to include one, but sometimes it is just the right thing to do! One final comment: My family is pack ratty, and keeps odd receipts and notes for ages, but I think Kitty Burns Florey has it all over my ancestors. I am quite sure no one kept my handwriting practice sheets, as someone did hers. But since someone did, we can all enjoy how hard little Kitty worked to make her 'J's pretty."
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