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Title	Doe the next thing
Collection	Crafts Study Centre
Calligrapher	Edward Johnston
Description	Broadside, on skin (vellum), one page, written in black ink in a large hand based on Lombardic and modern models in Strange; heading, decoration and versals in red.
Id Number Current Accession	C.86.10
Inscription	Signed numbered and dated, �XII�, 6 December 1897
Subject	calligraphy, broadside, literature
Measurements	16.3 x 12.2 centimetres
Hand	Lombardic
Material	ink on vellum
Ink	red, black
History	Written on 6 December 1897 for Hilda de No� Walker as the twelfth in Johnston's series of numbered manuscripts. This marks, apparently, the first use by Johnston of the edged pen. C.86.9 had taken Strange's fig. 161 as a model, but was 'written' with a brush. The same model is clear here, but informed by Johnston's reading of Strange's description of Charles Holme's alphabet. Lethaby, however, 'specially admired' only Johnston's heading, again on 5 April 1898.
Literary Source	'Doe the next thing' by Thomas � Kempis (1380-1471)
Rights Owner	Andrew and Angela Johnston/Crafts Study Centre 2004
Style Period Period	1890s
Technique	hand-lettering