The Essentials of Lettering A Mnaual for Students and Designers
Published by New York & London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, reprinted 1912.
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Oblong 4to, viii + 94pp. Original ochre-coloured cloth with gilt lettering on front board and backstrip; some slight flecking toward edges. A concise handbook on the construction of letters from classical and modern Roman to the Art Nouveau paradigm with numerous b/w diagramatic illustrations detailing the geomaetric proertions of these constructions, in addition to reproductions of numerous monograms, ciphers, trademarks and devices. A beautiful compendium on the theory of lettering and typeface design as it was during the early 20th century. ffe bears a name inscription which had been covered by erasure fluid. A near-fine copy. 1912 'Third edition. Nineteenth Impression' edition. One of 26500 copies issued.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Essentials of Lettering A Mnaual for Students and Designers
- Author
- French, Thomas E. & Robert Meiklejohn
- Publisher
- New York & London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, reprinted 1912.
- Binding
- Hardcover
Grant's Bookshop
Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
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