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THE SIGNISTS BOOK MODERN ALPHABETS OF
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL, ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL, FROM THE EIGHTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH NUMERALS.
Including German, Old English, Saxon, Italic, Perspective, Greek, Hebrew, Court Hand, Engrossing, Tuscan, Riband, Gothic, Rustic, and Arabesque, with several ^Original Designs and An Analysis of the Roman and Old English Alphabets, /Large, Small, and Numerals, Church Text, Large and Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination, Monograms, Crosses, &c, for the use of Architectural and Engineering Draughtsmen, Surveyors, Masons, Decorative Painters, Lithog-
raphers,
Engravers,
Carvers,
&c, &c.
::::::::::::::::
COLLECTED AND ENGRAVED BY
F.
DELAMOTTE.
CHICAGO!
FREDERICK
J.
DRAKE &
CO.,
PUBLISHERS
nob LIBRARY Two
of
CONGRESS
Copies Received
APR 14 1906
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CLASS CC, XXc. No, I tl- o 6 o O
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PREFACE. S there are no works of Ancient and Modern Alphabets of any excellence published
and research this
collection
to
moderate price
cheap form,
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