Modern type display and the use of type ornament (1911)
Wyse, Henry T. (Henry Taylor), 1870-1951 · Edinburgh, H.T. Wyse · leaf 23
19 … centuries gradually became narrower and more angular in the succeeding two or three centuries. In England and Ireland it became pointed, while in Germany, by the fifteenth century, it had become very narrow and stiff. The rounded parts were represented by short thick and thin strokes set at an…
Typography · Printing -- Specimens · Alphabet
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