The best short accounts in English are in B.L. Ullman, Ancient Writing and Its Influence, new ed. (1969, reprinted 1980); and Edward Maunde Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (1912, reprinted 2002). All Roman books and documents are cataloged (in English) in, respectively, E.A. Lowe (ed.), Codices latini antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century, 12 vol. (1934–66, reprinted 1982); and Albert Bruckner and Robert Marichal (eds.), Chartae latinae antiquiores: Facsimile Edition of the Latin Charters Prior to the Ninth Century (1954– ), an ongoing work with more than 79 vol. already published. The most important monographs are Jean Mallon, Paléographie romaine (1952); E.A. Lowe, Palaeographical Papers, 1907–1965, 2 vol. (1972); Leonard E. Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction (1984), a guide to further study of Latin scripts; Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1990; originally published in German, 1979), an essential monograph on medieval paleography by a major authority on the subject; and Arthur E. Gordon, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy (1983), a paleographic work that contains 100 Latin inscriptions chronologically arranged and illustrated. Chinese calligraphy
Yu-ho Ecke Tseng, Chinese Calligraphy (1971); Shen Fu, Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy (1977); Lucy Driscoll and Kenji Toda, Chinese Calligraphy, 2nd ed. (1964); Yee Chiang, Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Techniques, 3rd ed. rev. and enlarged (1973); William Willetts, Chinese Calligraphy: Its History and Aesthetic Motivation (1981), and Chinese Art, 2 vol. in 1 (1958); Chih-mai Ch’ên, Chinese Calligraphers and Their Art (1966); and Shen Fu, Glenn D. Lowry, and Ann Yonemura, From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy (1986).
Jean François Billeter, The Chinese Art of Writing (1990; originally published in French, 1989), focuses on both the theory and practice of Chinese calligraphy and also draws parallels between traditional calligraphy and modern European art; Chang Ch’ung-ho (Ch’ung-ho Chang) and Hans H. Frankel (trans.), Two Chinese Treatises on Calligraphy (1995), includes translations of the 7th-century treatise Shupu by Sun Qianli and the 13th-century Xu shupu by Jiang Kui; and Frederick W. Mote and Hung-lam Chu, Calligraphy and the East Asian Book, ed. by Howard L. Goodman (1989), with studies of Chinese calligraphy and printing, as well as early forms of writing found on other objects, such as bronzes. Korean calligraphy
Eung-hyon Kim, “Sang-ko eui Sŏye,” “Koryŏ eui Sŏye,” “Yi-cho eui Sŏye,” and “Hyondae eui Soye,” all in Han’guk yesul ch’ongnam (1965), published by the Academy of Art, Seoul, South Korea, are the best surveys on Korean calligraphy, by a noted calligrapher. Ki-sung Kim, Han’guk Sŏye sa (1966), is a general survey of Korean calligraphy. Japanese calligraphy
Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy 8th–19th Century (1984); Yujiro Nakata, The Art of Japanese Calligraphy (1973; originally published in Japanese, 1967); and Hisao Sugahara, Japanese Ink Painting and Calligraphy…, trans. from Japanese (1967).