The History and Technique of Lettering

The History and Technique of Lettering

by Alexander Nesbitt

300 pages· 1998· ISBN 9780486402819
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This comprehensive, well-illustrated volume ranges from the earliest pictographs and hieroglyphics to the work of 20th-century designers. Subjects include early writing forms; Roman lettering; runes and medieval hands; the Carolingian minuscule and derivative types; humanistic writing and derivative fonts; and much more. 89 complete alphabets and more than 165 additional specimens.

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