The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors (1895)
Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 101
THE COMPLETE CAKRIAGE AND WAOON PAINTER. 97 the middle bar of the letter. We next divide the horizon- tal lines by perpendicular ones, forming three and a half squares, and this gives us the extreme dimensions of the oc- tagon block B, C, D, G, H, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Z, &. The … Fig. 52. — Showing how an Ellipse is Used in Making Round Letters. round block letters occupy a very little more space, say, one-quarter of a square, the letters E, F, J, N and L be- ing one-quarter of a square less than the extreme boundary. The letter I is simply the width of one square. The…
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