Regulæ trium ordinum literarum typographicarum, or, The rules of the three orders of print letters viz. the Roman, Italick, English capitals and small : shewing how they are compounded of geometrick figures, and mostly made by rule and compass, useful for writing masters, painters, carvers, masons, and others that are lovers of curiosity / by Joseph Moxon ...

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Regulæ trium ordinum literarum typographicarum, or, The rules of the three orders of print letters viz. the Roman, Italick, English capitals and small : shewing how they are compounded of geometrick figures, and mostly made by rule and compass, useful for writing masters, painters, carvers, masons, and others that are lovers of curiosity / by Joseph Moxon ...
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Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.
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London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,
1676.
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Alphabets -- Early works to 1800.
Printing -- Early works to 1800.
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"Regulæ trium ordinum literarum typographicarum, or, The rules of the three orders of print letters viz. the Roman, Italick, English capitals and small : shewing how they are compounded of geometrick figures, and mostly made by rule and compass, useful for writing masters, painters, carvers, masons, and others that are lovers of curiosity / by Joseph Moxon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51552.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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The Stem and Tittle of this j is made like i. The Semidiameter of the lower Arch of its Tail is two of

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its Stems, viz. 7. whose Centre lies two Stems from the Bottom-line, viz. in Parallel 7 in the Erect of its Beak, (as at 1.) The Semidiameter of its inner Arch is one Stem, viz. 3 ½, and its Centre lies in 3 ¾ in the same Erect, (as at 2.) The Diameter of the Dot is one Stem, and its Centre lies in Parallel 2 ¼, Erect 1 3/4.

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