2%2 MifcetUnen Curiofa. Vol, lit 4 



A Specimen of each of thefe three are in the 

 Plate. This third is made ufe of for Epi- 

 taphs, and other Infcriptions on Buildings or 

 Monuments. Thefe three forts I may call 

 the three general kinds of Writing, but there 

 is to be found an almofl: infinite variety of 

 forms which Men ufe. This will be the more 

 ealie to be believed, when we confider that 

 the Printed Characters are exaAly the fame 

 with the Written, infomuch that every va- 

 riety in each ftroke, line or point, that is 

 or can be made with the Pencil, is perfectly 

 expreffed in the Impreffion, and the Form^ 

 Mode, or Hand, as we call it, of every Wri- 

 ter is exhibited fo curioufly, that I think it 

 hardly poffible to be performed after the way - 

 of wooden Cuts, as Authors affirm it is, 

 but mull: be done after the method of our 

 Copper Cutts, Printed by a Roul-prefs, which 

 the way of exprefling the Running or Court- 

 Hand, does, I conceive, moft evidently de- 

 monftrate, and from divers circumftances, I 

 could evidently make appear from the Book 

 it felf, which I cannot fo well exprefs in 

 Writing. Their Paper is generally very thin 

 and fine, and very tranfparent, but brown^ 

 fo that whatever is Written or Printed on it, 

 * is almoftr as legible on the back, as on the 

 forefide, which is of great ufe in the cutting 

 of their Stamps. And thence they never 

 Write or Print on both fides of the fame 

 Leaf, but only on one, and to make the Leaf 

 appear Printed on both fides, they double 

 the Sheet with the Printed fides outwards, 

 and putting the folded part forward, they 

 Sew, Bind, or Stitch together, all thefe Sheets 



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