ENGLISH

Of the Just Shaping of Letters

By Albrecht Dürer

Book information

Year
1965
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20873344 bytes)
Pages
40\22
Time added
2023-09-10 19:19:35

Description

A republication of the 1917 translation from the Latin of the sixteenth-century German artist's instructional treatise on the geometric construction of Roman capitals, with precise directions for each letter and general directions for Gothic capitals and miniscules. First published as part of Dürer's theoretical treatise on analytic geometry, Unterweisung der messung mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt (1525), usually known in English as The art of measurement. Includes numerous letterform designs, construction diagrams, and illustrations--From publisher description.

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