The History and Technique of Lettering

The History and Technique of Lettering
Author: Alexander Nesbitt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486402819

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.

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley
Author: Robert Dodsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2004-01-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521522083

This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.