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 43
began to show signs of nationality. Atthe loss of some refinement, we get thenceforth i6 Art in the Alphabet. variety of character. By the beginning of the 8thcentury distinctly national styles of lettering wereevolved. To subdivide these styles so minutely as thelearned do, is rather to bewilder… … 14. FRANCO-GALLIC MSS. HEADLINES. 7TH CENTURY. the Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon, and the Visigothictypes of writing, all of which eventually mergethemselves in what we call Gothic, in which,nevertheless, we still find traits of nationality,English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, as thecase may be.…
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