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Alphabet, 26
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GOTHIC PRINT. Italian and Large Text Hand Alphabets (small), 28

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BY URIAH HUNT,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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The preparation and completion of a work on Ornamental Penmanship is a task of greater magnitude, and requires more
time and study, than any one who has not made the attempt would imagine. This, together with the fact, that if the best
artists are engaged in its mechanical execution, its great cost may be given as a reason why no one has had the courage to

publish an elaborate work of this description.

The work which m now presented to the public is the result of fifteen years' labor, study, and experience, during all of which
time the author has been engaged in teaching and designing penmanship, and unceasing in his efforts to improve the art. He
has in fact endeavored to raise Penmanship from an art to a science to demonstrate that, from its rudiments to the highest
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style of finish of which it is susceptible, it can be taught and practised correctly with, and only with, mathematical precision.
In 1842, he designed and had published a series of copy books for the use of schools, in which his favorite ideas on the sub-
jectwere for the first time explained and exemplified. The approval which that series met with, as evidenced by large sales
and consequent frequent use, and the urgent requests made to him by teachers and others that he would publish a work on
Ornamental Penmanship, have induced him to offer to the public the following Chirographical Designs, consisting of a series of
Alphabets, carefully analyzed and finished, together with some other exercises in flourishing, &c, calculated to guide and im-
prove the pupil.
Obnamental Penmanship, literally considered as such, has of late been brought to a higher state of perfection and finish than
ever attained before* The Engraver, Lithographer, Designer, Letter Carver, Sign Writer, Stone Cutter, Punch Cutter, and
Type Founder have manifested a spirit of emulation to excel in their respective branches of business; and it is in nowise
Unreasonable to* suppose that a work of this kind, which exhibits with mathematical precision the shape and proportion of every
variety of letters, will be an acceptable addition to their previous acquaintance with the subject, and materially assist them in
theif several vocations. Q^
 Neither trouble nor expense has been spared in order to secure the services of the best, steel engravers in the Union ; as ah
evidence of this, the work will speak for itself. The names of the artists, who engraved the different plates, will be found at
the bottom of every page. We do not hesitate to say that, so far as our judgment and experience go in these matters, these
gentlemen have no superiors in this branch of the art.

This work comprises in all thirty-three plates of various designs of Ornamental Alphabets, and a few compositions intended
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to illustrate the effects of a combination of different styles of lettering.
The and Finished Capitals and Lower Case letters, in plain and ornamental
alphabetical plates consist of a series of Analytical
Roman German Text, Old English Print, English Church Text, German Print, Round or Text Hand, Italian, Italic or
Print,
Stump Writing, and German Epistolary Writing. The student will be greatly assisted in the drawing of letters, by a careful
observation and study of the Analytical plates.
Numeral Figures, both plain and ornamental, and of varied styles, to correspond with the different characteristics of the
Roman Print, &c, are also given on the several plates., *
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Flourishes. To attain superiority in flourishing requires good taste, diligent study, and careful practice. Although no plate
has been devoted exclusively to Flourishes, yet there is an almost endless variety in the pages which contain the, German Text,

Old English Capitals,&c, &c. Each of these should be practised separately by the learner before he attempts a combination of
them. The Title-page, and several others given, illustrate how these movements, i.e., Flourishes, may be varied. -

Perhaps the best exercises that can be given for practice in striking, are the Round Hand and Italian Capitals, as all
flourishes considered individually form part of a letter. In the formation of these letters the penman may depend a great deal
upon his own fancy, as they may be made in a great variety of styles, yet their general characteristics must be preserved.
Those persons who practise flourishing and striking of Capitals off-hand will necessarily become more elegant business writers,
as those exercises tend to impart strength and freedom of motion to the arm, hand, and fingers. .

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