. The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring, with numerous recipes for mixing colors . THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 97 the middle bar of the letter. We next divide the horizon-tal lines by perpendicular ones, forming three and a halfsquares, and this gives us the extreme dimensions of the oc-tagon block B, C, D, G, H, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Z, &. The : • • Fig. -Showing
. The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring, with numerous recipes for mixing colors . THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 97 the middle bar of the letter. We next divide the horizon-tal lines by perpendicular ones, forming three and a halfsquares, and this gives us the extreme dimensions of the oc-tagon block B, C, D, G, H, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Z, &. The : • • Fig. -Showing how an Ellipse is Used in MakingBound Letters. round block letters occupy a very little more space, say,one-quarter of a square, the letters E, F, J, N and L be-ing one-quarter of a square less than the extremeboundary. The letter I is simply the width of one letter W extends over one square, making it occupyfour and one-half squares. In Fig. 52 we show how the ellipse is used in makinground letters. All round letters are governed in their cir-cular parts by the ellipse, or oval as it is more frequentlycalled, and to illustrate this fact we present here in the alphabet in lower case letters of the Gothic HalfBlock style. THE COMPLETB CARRIAGE AND WAGON
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