The History Of Letters. From The Beginning Up To The Greeks. Norse Rock-tracing -- American Indian Pictograph -- Sumerian Word-pictures -- Chinese Word-pictures -- Egyptian Word-pictures -- Cartouche Of Ptolemy With Explanatory Diagram -- Egyptian Hieratic Script -- Egyptian Demotic Script -- Comparison Of Hieroglyphs With Hieratic And Demonic Symbols -- Cretan Symbols -- Phoenician Alphabet -- Classic Greek Alphabet -- Greek Current Writing -- The Roman Contribution. The Trajan Capitals -- Square Capitals -- Rustica -- Older Roman Current Writing -- Later Roman Current Writing -- Slanted-pen Uncials -- Straight-pen Uncials -- Half-uncials -- Runes And The National Hands. Three Lines From The Codex Runicus Arnamag -- The Futhark Alphabet -- Irish Half-cuncials -- Anglo-saxon Writing -- Merovingian Writing -- East Frankish Writing -- The Carlovingian Minuscule; Arabic Numerals. Lines From Otfrid's Book Of Gospels -- Lines From The Prum Gospels -- Early Indian Numerals --^ Eastern Arabic Numbers -- Western Arabic Numbers -- Eleventh Century European Numbers -- Later European Numbers -- Claude Garamont, 1545 -- Gothic Letters And Types. Lines From A Twelfth-century Manuscript -- Thirteenth-century Book Hand -- Fourteenth-century Book Hand -- The Severe Gothic Letter, Fifteenth Century -- Twelfth-century Gothic Initials -- Thirteenth-century Capitals -- Typical Fourteenth-century Capitals -- Fifteenth-century Capitals -- The Albrecht Durer Capitals, Sixteenth Century -- Tagliente's Filigree Initials -- Rotonda, Italian-area Book Hand -- French-area Gothic Current-cursive -- German-area Current-cursive -- Everyday Hand From The English Area -- Lines From The Gutenberg Bible -- Lines From The Fust And Schoetfer Psalter -- Half-gothic From Radolt's Specimen Sheet, 1486 -- Johann Bamler's Schwabacher, 1474 -- Transitition To Fraktur, Hans Schonsperger, 1514 -- Chart Of Style Difference -- Sigmund Feyerabend's Fraktur, 1566 --^ Hans Kilian's Fraktur Script, 1545 -- Lines Of Robert Granjon's Civilite -- Initials And Script After Moller, 1645 -- Lines From A Munuscript Book, Johannes Boehland, 1924 -- Specimen Of The Wilhelm Klingspor Type -- Original Schwabacher -- Ehmcke Fraktur -- Unger Fraktur -- Legende. Humanistic Writing And Its Influence On Type. Lines Of Humanistic Book Hand -- Humanistic Current-cursive -- Wendelin Of Speyer's Half-gothic Type -- Second Type Used By Sweynheim And Pannartz -- The Nicolas Jenson Type -- The Aldus Type -- Erhard Ratdolt's Roman -- The Audus Italic -- Arrighi's Second Italic Type -- The Sixteenth Century. Durer's Classic Capitals -- Cancellaresca, Vespasiano Amphiareo -- Concellaresca Formata -- Cursive Initials -- Lettera Napolitana -- Mercantile Milanese -- Bastarda, Francisco Lucas -- Redondilla, From Lucas -- Antiqua Type And Griffo Italic As Written By Lucas -- Simon Del Colines's Roman -- Robert Estienne's Roman -- Antoine Augereau's Roman -- Type Used By Christopher Plantin -- Italic Used By De Colines Canon De Garamond From The Egenolff Sheet -- Petit Canon De Garamond -- Granjon's Italic -- The Influence Of Engraving And The Pointed Pen. Example Of Ronde -- Lettre Italienne Bastarde -- Coulee --^ Italian Hand As Used By Ambrosius Perligh -- Capitals In The Dutch Style -- An Example Of John Ayres' Italian Hand -- Italian Hand As Used By With Flourishes, George Shelley -- Italian Hand Of Decaroli -- Italian Hand As Used By Servidori -- German Chancery Script -- Engraver's Italian Hand -- Great Latin Or English Roundhand, Johann Heinrigs -- Type Used By Matthieu And Bonaventure Elzevir -- The Jean Jannon Type -- The Fell Roman And Italic -- Caslon Old Face -- An Italic And Roman Cut By Johann Fleischman -- Baskerville's Roman And Italic -- Bodoni Capitals, Lower-case, And French Cursive -- Roman And Italic Used By Joaquin Ibarra -- Didot Roman And Italic -- A Roman In The English Modern Style -- A Modern Italic Type -- Eighteenth Century Decorative Types -- Open Face Titling -- The Effects Of The Industrial Revolution. Typical Nineteenth-century Roundhand -- Flourishing Exercises And Diagram Showing Position Of Pen And Hand --^ Two Peculiar Roundhand Techniques - The Italian Letter -- Engrossers' Round Script -- Robert Thorne's Fat-face Roman -- Thorne's Egyptian Types -- William Caslon Iv's Egyptian -- The Beaudoire Capitals -- The Revived Old Style -- Miller & Richard -- William Morris's Golden Type -- The Troy Type -- Specimens Of Printing Types In Hildreth & Fales Job Printing Establishment -- Basic English Ornamented Type Styles Of The Nineteenth Century. The Twentieth Century. Capitals, Lower-case, Italics And Numbers Based Upon Letters By A. Eric Gill -- Typical Broad-pen Letters -- Typical Von Larisch Exercises -- Scripts Used During The 1930's -- Use Of Script And Sans Serif In Late 1930s -- Sans Serif Letters Based On Gothic Type -- Freely-written Headlines, Showing Present-day Usage -- Portion Of A Letter Written By Maxfield Parrish -- A Current Writing Hand -- An Experiment In Adapting Personal Writing Tendencies -- Forum Type, Frederic W. Goudy -- Weiss Initials -- Cloister Roman And Italic -- A Garamond Produced By The Stempel Type Foundry -- Bembo, Monotype Corporation Of London -- Paul Renner's Futura -- Memphis -- Ultra Bodoni -- Alternate Gothic -- Rudolf Koch's Neuland -- Lydian -- Nicolas-cochin -- Koch Antiqua -- Berhard Cursive -- Trafton Script -- Narcissus -- Greco Adornado -- Lettering As Design -- Lettering With The Broad Pen -- Built Up Letters -- Exercises In Script -- Problems Of Integration -- Poster Design. Alexander Nesbitt. 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.

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