A book of scripts Author:Alfred Fairbank Alfred Fairbank provides an excellent introduction to and anthology of calligraphy. Texts and plates together graphically explain the world of majuscules and minuscules, uncials and half-uncials, formal and cursive hands, square and rustic capitals Carolingian and Gothic scripts, roman and italic scripts secretary, round-hand and copperplate, a... more »nd the revival italic hand.« less