Alphabets: A Manual Of Lettering For The Use Of Students, With Historical And Practical Descriptions

The alphabet is so closely linked up with our everyday life, that its very familiarity causes it to be, in a measure, overlooked and neglected as a serious study. With the exception of the very partial revival of 1845-55, from which the names of the younger Pugin and Owen Jones are inseparable, our designers have been content, until quite recently, with letters whose only characteristic was their uninspired conventionality.

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