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Collected together on DVD for the first time, in digital format, 76 rare, vintage books concerning the art and practice of lettering. Published between 1550 and 1940, a range of subject matter is covered including - the history of lettering, construction and execution of lettering for decorative and commercial purposes, lettering in illumination, free-hand letters, instructions and ideas for making "show-card", penmanship, hundreds of ornamental alphabets of all styles and types, examples of lettering in use, monograms and ciphers and their design and much more. Each book, in PDF format, is a scan of the original pages, so you be reading each, exactly as intended.

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The complete list of titles on the disc is as follows:

A Chapter on Lettering - The Draftsman (1905)
A Few Suggestions of Plain Lettering - C Jacobi (1908)
A New Book of Cyphers - S Sympson (1724)
A Roman Alphabet & How To Use It - FF Frederick (1917)
A Set of Alphabets of all the Various Hands of Modern Use - FS Copley (1877)
'A Show At' Sho' Cards; Comprehensive,Complete,Concise - FH Atkinson (1912)
A System of Easy Lettering - J Cromwell (1890)
A Text Book of Free Hand Lettering - FT Daniels (1909)
A Text Book on Plain Lettering - HS Jacoby (1901)
A Textbook on Lettering & Sign Painting - International Correspondance Schools (1902)
Alphabets Old & New - Lewis F Day (1910)
Art of Letter Painting Made Easy - JG Badenoch (1888)
Chapter on Lettering - The Browning Press (1906)
Daily's Showcard Writing System,Complete in 34 Lessons; Formerly the Haberdasher - AE Hurst (1921)
Davids' Practical Letterer; Instructions in Commercial Lettering With Brush or Pen - S Hackes (1903)
Draughtsman's Alphabets - H Esser (1877)
Druggists' & Dispensers' Practial Show Card Instructor - WA Thompson (1914)
Elements of Lettering - International Correspondance Schools (1899)
Essentials of Lettering - T French & R Mieklejohn (1912)
Fairchild's Rapid Letterer & Show-Card Maker - S Hackes (1910)
Free-Hand Lettering - V Wilson (1903)
Haney's Manual of Sign, Carriage, & Decorative Painting - S Gibson (1870)
Henderson's Sign Painter - JG Ohnimus (1906)
How to Make Effective Show-Cards - AH Reupke (1898)
How to Make Show Cards; A Practical Treatise for the Use of Retail Merchants & Their Clerks - CA Miller (1916)
Industrial Monograms - M Gerlach (1881)
Lettering - T Wood Stevens (1916)
Lettering For Commercial Purposes - H Gordon (1918)
Lettering For Draftsmen Engineers & Students - C Reinhardt (1911)
Lettering in Ornament - Lewis F Day (1914)
Lettering of Working Drawings - JCL Fish (1894)
Letters & Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples - FC Brown (1902)
Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the use of Craftsmen - E Johnstone (1909)
Modern Lettering - W Heyny (1913)
Monograms & Ciphers - AA Turbayne (1906)
One Hundred Alphabets for the Show Card Writer (1919)
One Hundred Loose Leaf Lessons in Lettering With Pen & Brush - WH Gordon (1920)
Pantographia - E Fry (1799)
Penmanship of the XVI, XVII &; XVIIIth Centuries, a Series of Typical Examples
from English & Foreign Writing Books - LF Day (1911)
Practical Phrases of Show Card Writing - St Louis Show Card School (1922)
Presenting the Speed Ball Pen - George & George (1915)
Sign Writing & Glass Embossing; A Complete Practical Illustrated Manual of the Art, to
Which Are Added Numerous Alphabets - J Callingham (1890)
Sign, Carriage & Decorative Painting Including Full Instructions in Fresco Painting - J Haney (1897)
Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship - HC Spencer (1866)
Standard Lettering - RC Claflin (1916)
Student's Alphabets - Keuffel & Esser Co (c1907)
The Alphabet - FW Goudy (1921)
The American Sign Writer - GB Collins (1877)
The Art of Lettering & Sign Painter’s Manual; A Complete & Practical
Illustration of the Art of Sign Writing - AP Boyce (1878)
The Art Ornamenter & Modern Sign Writer - R Henderson (1895)
The Book Of Ornamental Alphabets - F Delamotte (1914)
The Embroiderer's Book of Design - F Delamotte (1891)
The Expert Sign Painter - A Ashmun Kelly (1911)
The Handbook of Medieval Alphabets & Devices - H Shaw (1856)
The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner Manual of Penmanship - JW Payson (1873)
The Penman's Hand-Book - GA Gaskell (1883)
The Sign Painter - Pullman School of Lettering (1916)
The Signist; A Compilation of the Most Modern & Artistic Designs,Valuable to
Sign Writers, Draughtsmen, Designers, Architects, Engravers, etc - R Henderson (1903)
The Signist's Book of Modern Alphabets, Plain & Ornamental, Ancient & Mediæval,
from the 8th to the 20th Century With Numerals - F Delamotte (1906)
The Silent Sign Writer; A Book Devoted Entirely to the Art of Sign Writing - SM Erbar (1903)
The Theory & Practice of Lettering, Designed for the use of Engineers & Draftsmen - CE Sherman (1908)
Type Specimens for Layout, Printing, Lettering - W Longyear (1940)
Writing & Illuminating & Lettering - E Johnston (1906)

Foreign Language Texts

Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift Vol 1 - R von Larisch (1900)
Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift Vol 2 - R von Larisch (1900)
Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift Vol 3 - R von Larisch (1900)
Deliciae Variarum Insigniumq[ue] Scripturarum - J van de Velde (1605)
Grammato Graphices - C Boissens (1605)
Introducción al Estudio del Arte del Alfabeto en Cataluña - V Oliva (1913)
Kunstrichtige Schreibart - P Franck (1655)
La Operina di Ludouico Vicentino, da Imparare di Scriuere Littera Cancellarescha - L Arrighi (1524)
Libellus Valde Doctus Elegans, & Vtilis, Multa et Varia Scribendarum L
iterarum Genera Complectens - U d Wyss (1564)
Libro di M. Giovambattista - GB Palatino (1550)
L'Ornamentazione - G Vendrame (1923)
Schreibschrift, Zierschrift & Angewandte Schrift - E Johnstone (1910)

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~A B O U T T H E DVD~

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