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Excerpt from Alphabets Old and New: For the Use of Craftsmen, With an Introductory Essay on 'Art in the Alphabet' The alphabets here gathered together have been selected, and some Of them designed, with a very practical purpose - to trace the development Of lettering, to register the forms characteristic Of successive periods Of design, to show how writing is affected by the tools employed, and, finally, to suggest the endless variations a man may himself play upon shapes in some measure fixed by custom. Here are models not for penmen only - the pen is only one of the implements employed in writing - but for all manner Of craftsmen who may have occasion to make decorative use Of wording. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.