| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing
| | | | Creator: | Davy, Charles, 1722-1797 | | | | Publication: | Printed by T. Wright, for T. Cadell, and P. Elmsly [etc.], London,1772. | | | | Call #: | Pam. D223 | | | | Extent: | 3 p. Á., ix, [1], 126 p., 1 Á. illus., III pl. (1 fold.) 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Alphabets
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Decorative alphabets and initials
| | | | Creator: | Nesbitt, Alexander, 1901- | | | | Publication: | Dover Publications, New York,[1959] | | | | Notes: | Includes bibliography. | | | | Call #: | NK3600 D296 | | | | Extent: | 1 v. (unpaged, chiefly typog. specimens) 28 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Alphabets | Initials
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | The construction of Roman letters
| | | | Alt. Title: | Etliche Underricht zu Befestigung der Stett, Schloss und Flecken. English
| | | | Creator: | Dèurer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 | | | | | Dèurer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 | | | | | Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957 | | | | | Walker, EmerySir, 1851-1933 | | | | Publication: | Dunster House, Cambridge,1924. | | | | Notes: | Half-title: Dèurer's Roman alphabet. Vignette, device of Bruce Rogers of Indiana. Printer's note signed: B. R. "The letters ... are printed from process blocks made by Emery Walker from a copy of the editio princeps in the British Museum. They served to illustrate the English translation of the treatise printed in 1917 for the Grolier Club of New York" under title: Of the just shaping of letters from the Applied geometry of Albrecht Dèurer, book iii. "350 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, 1923." Oxford 332; Warde 178. | | | | Call #: | NK3615 D95 | | | | Extent: | 39 p. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Lettering | Alphabets
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Studio handbook, letter & design: hand lettered from cover to cover and built on experience to fill all needs in the field of commercial art for advertising
| | | | Creator: | Welo, Samuel. | | | | Publication: | F.J. Drake & co, Chicago,[c1927] | | | | Call #: | NK3620 W4 | | | | Extent: | 232 p., 1 l. illus., diagrs. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Lettering | Alphabets
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Hand book of manuscript, missal and monumental alphabets, from the Christian era to the 17th century: containing 155 examples
| | | | Publication: | Newbery & Co, London,[1860?] | | | | Call #: | NK3630 H2 | | | | Extent: | 31, 15 Á. 19 x 30 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Alphabets | Lettering
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | American text book for letters: With the most correct method for producing them with pen, brush, chisel or graver
| | | | Creator: | Dearborn, Nathaniel, 1786-1852 | | | | Publication: | Lee & Shepard, Boston,c1873. | | | | Call #: | Pam. D552 | | | | Extent: | 7 p. 28 pls. 13 x 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Penmanship | Alphabets
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Pantographia: containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world : together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter : to which are added, specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages : forming a comprehensive digest of phonology
| | | | Creator: | Fry, Edmund, 1754-1835 | | | | Publication: | Printed by Cooper and Wilson, for John and Arthur Arch [etc.], London,1799. | | | | Notes: | Place of publication within ornamental device. "Authorities quoted in this work": p. xxvi-xxix. | | | | Call #: | P211 F946 | | | | Extent: | [4], xxxvi, 320 p. ; 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Alphabet | Writing -- History
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times: illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets
| | | | Creator: | Tymms, W. R. (William Robert) | | | | | Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby)Sir, 1820-1877 | | | | Publication: | Day and Son, London,1860. | | | | Notes: | Illustrated t.-p. in colors. Ornamental borders. "The art of illuminating: what it was,--what it should be,--and how it may be practised. By M. Digby Wyatt, architect": p. 1-96. Bibliographical foot-notes. | | | | Call #: | ND3310 T8 | | | | Extent: | 104 p., [99] p. of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 31 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Illumination of books and manuscripts | Alphabets | Initials
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 12 | Title: | The handwriting of the renaissance
| | | | Creator: | Tannenbaum, Samuel Aaron, 1874?-1948 | | | | Publication: | Columbia University Press, New York,1930. | | | | Notes: | Transcripts of the facsimiles on versos facing the facsimiles. Bibliography: p. 163-168. | | | | Call #: | Z113 T17 | | | | Extent: | xii, 210 p. incl. front., illus., xiv facsim. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Paleography, English | Paleography, Latin | Paleography -- Handbooks, Manuals, etc | Writing -- History | Alphabet | Abbreviations
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