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Synopsis
Paperback. 13,50 / 21,00 cm. In English. 47 p. "...Architects, painters & others at times are wont to set an inscription on lofty walls, it will make for the merit of the work that they form the letters correctly. Accordingly I am minded here to treat briefly of this. And first I will give rules for a Latin Alphabet, and then for one of our common since it is of these two sorts of letters we customarily make use in such work; and first, for the Roman Draw for each a square of uniform size, in which the letter is to be contained. But when you draw in it the heavier limb of the letter, make this of the width of a tenth part of the square, and the lighter a third as wide as the and follow this rule for all letters of the Alphabet..."
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