I am intrigued by inks obviously.
I was wondering if any one recommends a good book on history of inks in general....
The only one I found was the Social life of Ink
I am intrigued by inks obviously.
I was wondering if any one recommends a good book on history of inks in general....
The only one I found was the Social life of Ink
be sure to get the Kindle Edition so no ink is used printing the book
(that does look like an interesting book by the way at least to another ink lover)
Yazeh (November 20th, 2020)
I read the reviews on Amazon, and I think I'll pass. I'm not fond of a literary approach to history and technology. I'm still tempted though, and may change my mind if at some point I don't find a replacement.
Yazeh (November 21st, 2020)
Being close to Christmas and the postal service they way it is thanks to the pandemic, I decided to opt out from ordering from international.
However, I found a very good priced one abebooks. Though you're there for a long wait....
It's ironic, we are neighbours, but shipping from US to Canada would take often longer than from Europe
I would love to find a book or two on this. I hate to see threads go with only one or two responses so here is my bump.
I can't recommend it yet, because I have not yet read it, but this kind of piqued my interest:
Thaddeus David's - The History of Ink (1860)
This came up in a search and seemed potentially intriguing as well.
Joe Nickell - Pen, Ink, & Evidence: A Study of Writing and Writing Materials for the Penman, Collector, and Document Detective
Ahriman4891 (December 2nd, 2020), Ole Juul (November 20th, 2020), Schaumburg_Swan (December 17th, 2020), Yazeh (November 20th, 2020)
Ahriman4891 (December 2nd, 2020), Yazeh (November 20th, 2020)
This one can be downloaded: https://archive.org/details/historyofinkincl00davirich
It's all about the greys...
A Smug Dill (November 22nd, 2020), Ahriman4891 (December 2nd, 2020), Ole Juul (November 22nd, 2020), Yazeh (November 22nd, 2020)
I got this book recently after it was mentioned here — it’s a really interesting book with history of inks, writing, writing materials, and writing instruments. The section on inks takes an historical perspective and also covers ink problems and ink containers — it’s not encyclopedic, by any means, but a good read nonetheless. I got mine “used” (actually pretty much brand-new condition) on Abebooks.com for a very reasonable price.
Yazeh (December 27th, 2020)
I found the part on ink fascinating but incomplete. It goes more in depth with XIXth century ink production (Stephens/ Carters etc). But when it comes to history of Iron gall ink, it's sketchy. Bishop's book delves more into it with fascinating ink recipes of the orient...... But if our focus is mostly XVII - XX century, Western civilization then it is more than adequate
In my experience, shipping from US generally takes about a week with usps, but in some areas it seems that they don't send directly to Canada so the system has flaws. I had three orders from US about two weeks ago, and two of them got here a few days ago, and one seems to be taking forever. Anyway, I think I'll order from Abebooks when their registration site comes back up. Funny system they have where you can't buy directly from them without signing up on another site (specs.openid.net). Oh well, I should just calm down and be patient.
So AbeBooks didn't get back to me (although it is Saturday), and the site is still not allowing account creation, so no shopping for new customers. However, the good news is that I found the book for only a little bit more with free shipping on BetterWorldBooks and the experience was nice and smooth. Now I just have to wait. They say it takes 10-20 days with standard (free) shipping. No idea why ink is quick and books are slow! Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading my own copy of Pen Ink & Evidence by Joe Nickell.
Yazeh (November 21st, 2020)
Sorry, bit late with this but perhaps for another time: I recommend Bookfinder for this sort of book hunt. It'll will search a whole bunch of sites in one go and save you a lot of time, even if only by elimination.
In the words of Paul Simon, you can call me Al.
I ended up on WorldCat, and that's how I found the book at BetterWorldBooks. WorldCat also tells you which libraries has it and indicates the closest location.
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