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The history and technique of lettering. Alexander Nesbitt.

By: Publication details: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, [1998]Description: xvii, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0486402819 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Lettering
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NK3600 .N4 1998
Summary: Comprehensive, well-illustrated volume chronicles writing through ages (Roman lettering, runes, medieval hands, Carolingian minuscule and derivative types, more), plus a 65-page practical course in lettering. 89 complete alphabets, more than 165 additional specimens.

"This Dover edition, first published in 1957, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the work originally published in 1950 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. under the title of Lettering: The history and technique of lettering as design"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-293) and index.

Comprehensive, well-illustrated volume chronicles writing through ages (Roman lettering, runes, medieval hands, Carolingian minuscule and derivative types, more), plus a 65-page practical course in lettering. 89 complete alphabets, more than 165 additional specimens.

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