The alphabet : fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations (1918)
Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, Goudy, Bertha, 1869-1935, compositor, Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931, printer, Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950, publisher, Village Press, Walker Engraving Company · New York : Mitchell Kennerley · leaf 34
Chapter III. The Kiational Hands WITH the decline of the Roman Empire, the writings of other na' tions rose in importance and we see a variety of characters which the evolution of national hands broi:^ht about. The text hands in use in ■western Europe up to the age of Charlemagne may be classified… … kinds,—each developing its own form, but later all merging gradually into one, that we now^ call 'Gothic' First, Lombardic, or the national hand of Italy, which was a develop' ment of the uncial and was first used in northern Italy. The Lombardic characfter is a most useful and interesting form and…
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