Vera Law Papers. Correspondence and private papers, including copies of printed journals to which she contributed articles, and a photograph of her circa 1920 (f. 204). Paper; ff. 204. Various sizes.
Vera Law Papers: correspondence, papers and practice pieces; 1909-1985. Correspondence, mostly autograph, and personal papers, some printed, together with practice pieces, on paper, and a gesso and gilding sample, on wood. Vera Law (b.1899 d.1985) was born in Nottingham and trained under Graily Hewitt and others at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, from 1917 to 1922, and in 1921 was one of the founder members of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators. Presented by her cousin...
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Calligraphy: Vera Law, scribe: Correspondence, papers and practice pieces of Vera Law: 1909-1985: Partly printed.
Vera Law Papers. Pen trials, practice pieces and preliminary designs, some relating to work commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; 1953, n.d. Mostly paper; ff. 16. Various sizes.
Vera Law Papers. Exercise book containing workings entitled The Roman Alphabet, including outlines of Roman Capitals, some inked. Paper; ff. 16. 250 x 200mm.
Vera Law Papers. Bound practice piece, containing poetry in a calligraphic hand, entitled Selections by Vera Law from Tennyson, Wordsworth [and] Ella Wheeler Wilcox; 1923. Paper; ff. i+10. 173 x 106mm.