Visconti Say: Everyone remembers their teacher telling them to fill pages and pages in their exercise book with A's, B's and C's to train the hand to become proficient in the art of writing. It's difficult enough to draw the whole alphabet, so when kids are told that each letter then has to be linked to the one before and to the one after and still be legible, they've even been known to panic!
Writing was without question a genuine manual skill, with its different styles and different shapes, some of which were fully-fledged masterpieces. We have but to think of the monks who would write for years on end, copying texts and producing works of intense beauty such as the Codex Gigas, the largest known medieval manuscript which weighs 75 kg and took over fully 20 years to complete!
At least six different styles of writing have come down to us, and this set, while not claiming to embody a treatise on the art of writing, is designed to impart simple basic instructions and to provide the tools for writing in Italics and in English Script.