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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.
Publication: London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,; 1676.
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Subject terms: Alphabets -- Early works to 1800.; Printing -- Early works to 1800.
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The Stem of K is made like I. It branches up∣wards from the middle of the Stem into Parallel 42, viz. the Top-line. The outside of the Top of its Branch is distant in the Top-line from the inside of the Top of the Stem 15 Erects, viz. 3 Stems, and the inside the Branch is 14 Erects from the Top of the Stem; so that a straight Ruler laid to these two points successively, and to the middle length of the Stem, describes this upper Branch. The lower Branch is as broad as the Stem, viz. 5 parts, and hath its in∣ner Footing one Stem, viz. 5 parts, distant from the Footing of the Stem. Therefore set your Compasses to 5, and placing one Foot in the middle of the in∣side the Stem, with the other Foot describe an oc∣cult Arch, (as at 1.) Then remove your Compasses to the point in the Foot-line where the inside of the lower Branch cuts it, and describe another occult Arch, (as at 2.) Then lay a straight Ruler to the Convex points of these two Arches from the upper Branch to the Foot-line; then set off on either side these two Branches 5 for the Topping and Footing, and in the Erects of these several settings off describe the Topping and Footing.