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![[picture: 143.---Spanish Round Gothic Letters. Francisco Lucas, 1577]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/143-Spanish-Round-Gothic-Letters-Francisco-Lucas-1577-q75-131x200.jpg "[picture: 143.---Spanish Round Gothic Letters. Francisco Lucas, 1577]")
143.—Spanish Round Gothic Letters. Francisco Lucas, 1577
Example of 16th century Spanish gothic letters, or blackletter, calligraphy. [more...]
[$]![[picture: 147.---Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/147-Italian-Blackletter-Title-Page-q75-131x200.jpg "[picture: 147.---Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.]")
147.—Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.
“The examples of old lettering reproduced in figures 147, 148 and 149, together with the drawings by Mr. Goodhue, will indicate the proper spacing of Blackletter; but in most of the pages here devoted to illustrating the individual forms the letters have been spaced too wide for their proper effect [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: 156.---Uncial Gothic Capitals. 14th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/156-Uncial-Gothic-Capitals-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: 156.---Uncial Gothic Capitals. 14th Century.]")
156.—Uncial Gothic Capitals. 14th Century.
When the Gothic Uncial capitals were cut in stone and marble there was naturally a corresponding change in character, as is shown in the Italian examples illustrated in 160
