Regulae trium ordinum literarum typographicarum, or, The rules of the three orders of print letters
Subtitle: 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: by Joseph Moxon, hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty
Contributors: Greenough, J. J., former owner
Publisher: Printed for Joseph Moxon, on Ludgate Hill at the sign of Atlas
Published: 1676
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Alphabets; Early works to 1800; Printing
Notes: Title words "Roman Italick English" are gathered with braces.

English short title catalogue, R21244

Cataloged 20161212 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown buckram. The title is stamped in gilt onto a black spine label. The bookplate of the BPL is present on the front pastedown. Present on the title page are the perforation and embossed stamps of the BPL and the embossed stamp of J.J. Greenough, as well as his ownership inscription. In this copy, plates 1-7 are bound-in at the front. ANy other plates associated with this edition are wanting. Bound uniformly with a copy of vol. 2 cataloged as G.676.M87R v.2. This is the frist of two items bound together in a single volume, the second of which is Moxon's Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works (1676).