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Display areas at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church, Va., teemed as pen enthusiasts made their ways along aisles, testing nibs with calligraphical flourishes and holding the barrels of pens carefully in their hands.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

Dee had refused an hundred pounds for these calligraphical labours.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

The Christ among the Doctors, dated 1506, and now in the Barberini Palace at Rome, might seem to have been painted chiefly to justify Giovanni Bellini's astonishment at the calligraphical painting of hair.

From Albert Durer by Moore, T. Sturge

My own is of this kind, superbly bound, and priced with a neatness peculiar to the calligraphical powers of the 'forementioned friend.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

One practical application of this anecdote is to enforce the importance of calligraphical studies upon authors.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various