Andreas Lambrou has complied an authoritative and comprehensive text on the history of the fountain pen and its industry in the United States of America and United Kingdom. Pen makers such as Conway Stewart, Parker, A T Cross, Sheaffer, De La Rue and others are featured together with companies and pens previously unpublished in a book on fountain pens. There are 540 individual colour plates of pens representing models more faithfully than ever before. The highest quality professional photographs illustrate the pens life-size for easy identification. 60 specially commissioned hand produced line drawings of pens demonstrate the evolution of the fountain pen through the ages in a unique and exciting manner. A selection of period advertisements complement the text and photographs.