item: #1 of 11
          id: 14184
      author: Lovechild, Miss
       title: The Ladder to Learning
        date: None
       words: 470
      flesch: 76
     summary: [Illustration: G] g _G_ stands for Goat, for Great, and for Good. [Illustration: B] b _B_ stands for Bullock, for Bird, and for Bear.
    keywords: florida; game; illustration; original; project
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 16081
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
        date: None
       words: 781
      flesch: 94
     summary: Even you can plead with men That they buy not slaves again, And that those they have may be Quickly set at liberty. When, as the white-man's _slave_, he toils, From early morn till even.
    keywords: anti; brother; child; day; fair; free; liberty; little; man; slave; slavery; tis; wretched
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 20590
      author: Brown, Frank Chouteau
       title: Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples
        date: None
       words: 22482
      flesch: 68
     summary: Letter forms based upon those shown in figures 1 and 2. F. C. B. 5 PHOTOGRAPH OF INCISED ROMAN CAPITALS. In Ireland, letter forms originally derived from early Roman models were developed through many decades with no ulterior influences, and resulted in some wonderfully distinctive and beautiful variations of the Roman letters, [47] though the beauty of these Irish examples can only be faintly suggested by reproductions limited to black and white, and without the decorations of the originals.
    keywords: 15th; 16th; 188; abbey; albrecht; alphabet; american capitals; anglo; arte; ascenders; beautiful; beginner; best; blackletter; book; boston; bradley; bragdon; brass; c. b.; capitals; century; certain; chapter; characteristic; classic; claude; co.; composition; construction; cover; crane; croce; cursive; cut; day; design; designers; diagram; different; distinctive; draughtsman; drawing; dürer; early; edward; effect; english; english capitals; examples; excellent; f. c.; f.c.b; fayette; figure; florence; forms; francisco; frank; freedom; french; general; george; german; goodhue; gothic; gothic capitals; gothic letters; guide; hand; hazenplug; illustration; incised; individual; initials; inscription; interesting; italian; italic; letter forms; lettering; letters; lines; london; lowell; lucas; manuscripts; marble; method; minuscule; modern; modern american; modern english; modern french; modern german; modern roman; new; old; original; outlines; page; panel; pen; penfield; photograph; possible; poster; press; proportions; redrawn; renaissance; renaissance capitals; result; roman; roman capitals; roman letters; rome; ross; round; rubbing; santa; saxon; script; serifs; serlio; shapes; shows; similar; small; small letters; space; spacing; spanish; stone; style; thin; title; tomb; treatment; type; uncial; use; uses; variety; walter; white; width; words; work; writing; york
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 22427
      author: Jones, Owen
       title: One Thousand and One Initial Letters
        date: None
       words: 100
      flesch: 40
     summary: ONE THOUSAND AND ONE Initial Letters Designed and Illuminated by OWEN JONES DAY & SON LITHOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN LONDON, 1864. [Illustration: A a]
    keywords: illustration
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 23450
      author: Delamotte, F. (Freeman)
       title: The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Medieval, from the Eighth Century With Numerals, including Gothic; Church Text, Large and Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination, Monograms, Crosses, &c.
        date: None
       words: 797
      flesch: 59
     summary: [Illustration: 16th Century. [Illustration: 16th Century.
    keywords: 14th; 16th; british; centuries; century; illustration; museum; small
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 23483
      author: Anonymous
       title: Dame Wonder's Picture Alphabet Amusing Alphabet, Dame Wonder's Series.
        date: None
       words: 892
      flesch: 101
     summary: McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS, Manufacturers of Toy Books, Games, &c., &c., 30 BEEKMAN STREET, N. Y. +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | | | | Aunt Mary's Series.--Mam. | A Gift to Young Friends.
    keywords: ----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ |; alphabet; aunt; blue; book; boys; dame; girls; illustration; jack; little; mother; picture; rhymes; robin; series; stands; stories; wonder; | +; | |
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 23619
      author: Leighton, John
       title: The Royal Picture Alphabet
        date: None
       words: 5540
      flesch: 80
     summary: It is very pleasant in the water on a fine day; but little boys should not go there, as it might be deep, and they might become cramped in their limbs, and be drowned when no one was near, as many naughty boys have been before now. Little boys and girls should not touch strange dogs, for they sometimes snap at those who are not familiar to them.
    keywords: ----------------------------+; -----------------------------+; 8vo; animals; book; boys; burn; children; cloth; comical; day; demy; dictionary; dog; drawing; edition; educational; english; face; fellow; fish; fruit; good; gravity; great; ichabod; illustrated; illustration; instruction; kind; lady; language; little; lock; long; man; master; mind; nature; new; old; pat; people; picture; pig; poor; popular; portrait; price; robert; royal; school; scott; soap; socrates; spelling; things; time; ward; water; way; webster; wonder; works; years; young; | |
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 30243
      author: Paul, John Dean, Sir
       title: ABC of Fox Hunting
        date: None
       words: 297
      flesch: 78
     summary: [Illustration: A. was Andrews my man, who was A.1. [Illustration: F. were the Fox-hounds, so far famed for killing.]
    keywords: cover; fox; foxes; hounds; illustration; lord
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 37103
      author: Dürer, Albrecht
       title: Of the Just Shaping of Letters
        date: None
       words: 10592
      flesch: 55
     summary: D in its lower half make like B; but at top let the anterior limb ascend upwards to the maximum height of the letters, and then cut off the hither angle by its diagonal; next superpose to the same height half a square upon the other three squares of the farther limb, & once more do here as you did below, and let this broken limb rest on the angle of the near limb, and let it extend beyond it as far as the end of the upright near limb; and so will it all but contain three conjunct squares; for when it meets the near vertical limb, that fraction is to be cut off at right angles. This (as I said above) is the antique form of the letters; but in these days there is used a more elegant text, and a diagonal square is substituted in the middle place for a right square, so that the lines of the letters are not so much curved; and there are made certain limbs adjoined and cleft; and there are set one on another three squares & a half; and spaces are left between two limbs as great as their width.
    keywords: angle; arc; breadth; broad; broad limb; circle; compass; cut; diagonal; diagonal square; diameter; draw; farther; fashion; hither; illustration; left; length; letter; like; limb; line; line e.; little; lower; middle; narrower; oblique; point; right; round; set; square; tenth; tip; touch; transverse; vertical; vertical limb
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 39398
      author: Cromwell, John Howard
       title: A System of Easy Lettering
        date: None
       words: 2364
      flesch: 70
     summary: By C. J. WOODWARD, B.Sc. 143 pages, complete thumb index 12mo, limp leather, $1.60. _Books mailed post-paid to any address on receipt of price_ Size of book 5 × 8 inches, stiff board covers.
    keywords: "--_prof; 16mo; 32mo; architecture; book; building; chicago; cloth; cts; dozen; edition; engineering; engineers; french; handbook; illustrated; illustration; inch; inches; leather; lettering; lines; logarithms; new; pages; paper; pocket; practical; price; size; street; system; tables; text; university; use; useful; work; york
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 39626
      author: Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick)
       title: An Alphabet of History
        date: None
       words: 6977
      flesch: 82
     summary: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS [Illustration] When Christopher Columbus stood the egg upon its end, He solved a weighty problem that no one could comprehend-- Perhaps it was the puzzle whose solution clearly showed The psychologic motives of the hen that crossed the road. What person ever hears About such things as that?
    keywords: apple; ballades; ben; big; book; brutus; centuries; chris; columbus; crown; cæsar; day; euripides; fact; fame; franklin; galileo; gessler; good; gravity; great; head; hippocrates; home; iago; illustration; jonson; khayyam; kidd; king; lads; lady; life; little; long; lot; lucullus; man; modern; newton; old; palace; pen; people; pepys; pirate; poor; present; queen; quintilian; raleigh; rare; sir; spot; stage; start; tell; thing; thought; time; tis; today; trouble; twas; ulysses; villon; watt; way; william; work; xantippe; years; yo ho; yvetot; zenobia
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