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 84
M as we make it is a late Roman form, the early Greek M with legs of equal length rep' resenting not m but s. The oldest latin in' scriptions show M with a fifth stroke, |W.
Alphabet · Alphabets · Typography · Printing
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