Letters & lettering : a treatise with 200 examples / Frank Chouteau Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-1947, author.

Contributor:

Bates & Guild Company, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Fisher Fine Arts Rare Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alphabets.

Lettering.

Genre:

Advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Erwin, Don (donor) (LIBRA Rare NK3600 .B8 1921)

Hunter, Ruth Steinberg, 1934-1998 (autograph) (LIBRA Rare NK3600 .B8 1921)

Spaulding-Moss Company (label) (LIBRA Rare NK3600 .B8 1921)

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 214 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Letters and lettering

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bates & Guild Company, MCMXXI [1921].

Summary:

This book is intended for those who have felt the need of a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged for convenient use. The alphabets illustrated, while primarily intended to exhibit the letter shapes, have in most cases been so arranged as to show also how the letters compose into words, except in those instances where they are intended to be used only as initials.

Contents:

Roman capitals

Modern Roman letters

Gothic letters

Italic and script

To the beginner

Notes:

Advertisements: pages [1]-[3] at end

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016. Copy has protective jacket.

LIBRA Rare NK3600 .B8 1921 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Don Erwin. Autograph ("Ruth Hunter, 46 Amherst St., Roslindale, Mass.") of Ruth Elaine Hunter (née Steinberg; 1934-1998) on verso of front free endpaper; label ("SPAULDING-MOSS COMPANY DRAWING SUPPLIES REPRODUCTION SPECIALISTS BOSTON, MASS.") on front pastedown.

OCLC:

1042345