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Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen : with an introductory essay on Art in the alphabet (1898)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : Batsford · leaf 70

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e caligrapher, sculptor, and artistgenerally, in order to perfect the appearance ofhis handiwork, and, in many cases, to make it fitthe space with which he has to deal The endsof art are not satisfied by merely compressing theletters, or reducing them to a scale which willenable the writer to bring… … 34. ENGRAVED ON BRASS. I395. ^^. PAINTED ON WOOD. 1727 GN(aR(iy j6. PAINTED ON M.\JOLICA. Ipl8 40 Art ill the Alphabet. the exceptional instance of the word et The*amperzand, as printers call it (190, 191), stilllingers in his founts of type, and is used even morehabitually by the ordinary penman…

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