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Definition of Calligraphers
1. calligrapher [n] - See also: calligrapher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calligraphers
Literary usage of Calligraphers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book-lover's Almanac by Henri Pène du Bois (1893)
"calligraphers. THE centenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley recalled another Shelley,
the most famous writing-master of the eighteenth century in England: Thy ..."
2. A History of Classical Scholarship by John Edwin Sandys (1908)
"In this type the complex ligatures and contractions used by calligraphers were
skilfully imitated. The first book in which all the three alphabets of the ..."
3. Lettering by Thomas Wood Stevens (1916)
"The invention of printing found a fairly established usage among the calligraphers,
distinguishing between capitals of the old form and small letters. ..."
4. The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing: A Connected Narrative of the by Henry Noel Humphreys (1855)
"The calligraphers, may be considered to be that class of scribes who transcribed
carefully MSS. of importance, which were generally written in capitals, ..."
5. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster by Antonius van der Linde (1871)
"By the side of the calligraphers were developed the special transcribers of the
universities, especially at Paris, Cologne, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Vienna. ..."
6. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"... that the writing had been done by the brush of a child n've years of age, and
was writing so beautiful that few adult calligraphers could surpass it. ..."
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