Construction, The, of Roman letters,
Duerer, Albrecht, 1471-1528. *Q.79.1 The construction of Roman letters.
— Cambridge. Dunster House. 1924. (1), 39, (1) pp. Plates. 19% cm. One of an edition of 350 copies edited and printed by Bruce Rogers. “The Roman alphabet constructed by Diirer ‘for the guidance of archi- tects, painters, and others’ first appeared in Book III of his treatise on geometry, ‘Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richt- scheyt,’ published at Nuremberg in 1525. ... The letters on the follow- ing pages are printed... from a copy of the editio princeps in the British Museum.”
 
 
This card was printed at the Boston Public Library, June 2. 1973
M8872 — T.r. — Lettering. — Rogers, Bruce, ed.