Letters & lettering; a treatise with 200 examples

1902·8.4 MB·English

by  Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-

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FIRST EDITION
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NOTE
This book is intended for those who have felt the need of
a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged
for convenient use.
The alphabets illustrated, while primarily intended to
exhibit the letter shapes, have in most cases been so arranged
as to show also how the letters compose into words,except
in those instances where they are intended to be used only
as initials. The application of classic and medieval letters
to modern usages has been, as far as possible, suggested
by showing modern designs in which similar forms are
employed.
In view of the practical aim of this treatise it has been
deemed advisable to include a larger number of illustrative
examples rather than to devote space to the historical evo-
lution ofthe letter forms.
To the artists, American and European, who have so
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kindly—furnished him with drawings of their characteristic
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letters and without whose cord—ial assistance this book
\ would hardly have been possible to the master-printers
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who have allowed him to show types specially designed for
'^ them, and to the publishers who have given him permission
^V to borrow from theirbooks and magazines,the author wishes
to express his sincere obligations.
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