Collecting Writing Instruments: From the Flint Tool to the Stylus by Dietmar Geyer
This book invites one to deepen his or her love for beautiful old writing instruments. Hundreds of contemporary engravings, illustrations, advertisements, photos, and catalog and brochure excerpts accompany the reader through the exciting written history of the quill pen, pencil and fountain pen. Editors and journalists, salespeople, architects, students and collectors of historic writing instruments will find facts about the origin, variation and further development of one of the most important and personal of humanity's useful tools--the writing instrument.
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