[HANDWRITING] THE SCRIPT OF HUMANISM. SOME ASPECTS OF HUMANISTIC SCRIPT, 1460-1560

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in terra cotta cloth, with dustjacket; xiv, 57 pages; with 58 pages of plates; there is a previous owner bookplate on the rear pastedown.~~This is comprised of a series of lectures given at King’s College, London in March if 1952. In these lectures Mr. Waldrop delves into the origins of italic and traces the development of humanistic cursive. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.