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Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)

Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 580

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e to centre, thus: I W A When the lines of lettering are curved, the same rules for spacing are tobe observed as above. If the letters are upright, as Homan or Gothic, thesides of each letter are to be j)arallel to the radius drawn to the centre ofthe letter, and the bottom and top lines at right… … In laying off letters by equal intervals, it is usual to count the numberof letters in the word, and fix the position on the plan of the central one,and then space off on each side: this is particularly important in titles,when it is necessary that many lines should have their extremities at uni-…

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