Elements of Lettering: A Treatise on the History, Classification, and Practical Application of the Various Styles of Letters of the Alphabet (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780266693550: Elements of Lettering: A Treatise on the History, Classification, and Practical Application of the Various Styles of Letters of the Alphabet (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266693555 ISBN 13: 9780266693550

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Elements of Lettering: A Treatise on the History, Classification, and Practical Application of the Various Styles of Letters of the Alphabet

Before requiring the student to apply himself to a knowledge of the present forms and classifications of the letters of our alphabet, he should become familiar with their history and the primitive forms of Writing. He should also note the important national changes that have'caused a transition from one form into another, until our present advanced era has been reached with its great variety of styles, distinctively difierent in character one from another, and each ar1s1ng from some important period in the world's history in which the funda mental or parent style was closely allied to a corresponding style of architecture.

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