Complete Calligraphy Skills by Vivien Lunniss

[Tasmith]

Complete Calligraphy Skills by Vivien Lunniss is well written with sections on calligrapher's tools, work surfaces, understanding letters and layout and design.  The book covers 20 lettering styles with a brief history and examples of each.  The one thing that really attracted me to this book is when I looked at it at my local Barnes & Noble book store, was in addition to the normal numbering of the strokes she color coded the strokes too.  For someone who is very visual that's a real help.  Plus, for each letter style you can either scan a QR code or type in the URL for an online tutorial.

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[Erica McPhee]

Thanks for sharing this! I haven't seen this one yet so I'll be sure to check it out. 

[Blotbot]

The online tutorials is a nice twist.  A few seconds of good demo goes a long way.

[Tasmith]

Was just published last month, May, 2015.