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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Hath the Top of the right hand stroke of its Stem reach 3 ½, viz. one Stem above the Head-line. The stroke through the Head is half a Stem broad, and Projects on either side the Stem 1 Stem. From the left hand end of the stroke draw a straight line to the Top of the right hand stroke of the Stem. Both sides the Stem run straight down to Parallel 15. The Arches of the Tail are thus drawn: Set your Com∣passes to 5 ¼, and placing one Foot in 17 ¼ Erect 8 ½, (as at Fig. 1.) Describe an Arch to reach from the left hand side of the Stem through the Foot-line into the Parallel of 15, where the Tail shall end; then set your Compasses to one Stem, viz. 3 ½, and describe occult Arches from the Tail, and the lower end of the right hand line of the Stem, and where these two occult Arches intersect each other, (as here at Fig. 2.) shall be the Centre whereon you must describe the inner Arch of the Tail.