The Trajan Capitals: From the Trajan Column at Rome

With 25 plates drawn and engraved by the author. Contains the first use of Village Italics. An expansion of Goudy's earlier work entitled THE ALPHABET in which he took the lettering from the Trajan Column in Rome and redrew the letters himself, completing the alphabet with his own H,J,K,U,W,Y and Z. Goudy tells the history of the alphabet in this book.