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Alphabet and Elements of Lettering

by Frederic W. Goudy

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Frederic W. Goudy's classic texts, "The Alphabet" and "Elements of Lettering", about typography and type design.
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last section has a single page for each letter with 15 different forms of writing style (and the book explains the history of the styles)
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In memory of

Bertha M. Goudy

Wife, friend, companion, and co-worker

with grateful recognition of her unfailing patience,

counsel, and intelligent craftsmanship

this volume is affectionately

dedicated by the

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The number of books dealing with lettering is now fairly large, some going more or less deeply into the history and development of letter forms while others principally present models or facsimiles of existing alphabets for suggestion or copying.
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