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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Lettering and Alphabets by J. Albert Cavanagh 85 complete alphabets lettered in various styles; instructions for spacing, roughs, brushwork.
