Luminario; or, The Third Chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum on the Construction of Roman Capitals cyrusprints Designed by Franz Paul Glass

Designed by Franz Paul Glass and released by Genzsch & Heyse in 1912

We’ve no idea why we bought it—and that goes double for why we read it

37 × 46 mm

George Brinton Cooper

this book is back and puts forward a genuine theory of all writing

Luminario; or, The Third Chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum on the Construction of Roman Capitals cyrusprints Designed by Franz Paul GlassWorld War II is finally over and what is everyone at Harvard thinking about? The history of calligraphy and lettering. Philip Hofer decides its high time to publish a series of books on the topic and this is the first. It includes a survey of constructed roman alphabets and then translates and reproduced a near forgotten chapter from Verinis Elements of Lettering printed in the 1520s. A dry read with lots of things to steal. We think you could easily