This lavishly illustrated sequel to Fountain Pens Vintage and Modern provides a comprehensive history of the fountain pen and its primary manufacturers throughout the world. With a large page format, this book includes over 170 specially commissioned colour illustrations, most of them full page. The great majority of the 2,000 or so vintage and modern pens illustrated are reproduced to actual size.
The updated and expanded text features countries not covered previously in other books. A new chapter on limited editions offers concise details on this buoyant segment of the pen market and another new chapter on materials and processes from 1883 to the present day breaks new ground and highlights techniques such as lacquering, guilloche engraving and plastic identification.
Specially commissioned artistic technical and line drawings, both in colour and black and white, illustrate mechanisms and the development of pen designs. Key period advertisements complement the text. Fountain Pens of the World is the nearest approximation possible to an encyclopaedia of the fountain pen and constitutes and indispensable source-book for collectors, designers, traders, retailers, investors and devotees of fountain pens in general.