A list of the necessary paints will be given in the directions for colouring, [page 9].
Alphabets (capitals).
The beginner should endeavour to obtain one or two sheets of alphabets (capitals) in black and white, of the full size required, say about two inches high.
Lower-case (small letters).
An alphabet of "lower-case," or small letters, is subjoined, which will be found to harmonise well with almost any capitals, and is in proportion to those of two or two and a half inches high.
Enlarging or reducing Capitals.
But although the beginner will do well to copy or trace letters of the exact size required, he cannot too soon commence the practice of enlarging or reducing the copy, otherwise many very beautiful initial letters will be lost to him. The great art in copying on a different scale is to observe carefully the proportions of the original: keep every branch of the letter equal in thickness, if the original be so: or if copying, for example, a capital A, and one side of the arch be twice the width of the other, let the copy preserve the same proportion. In the letter B, observe if the two bows be of equal size; the lower is generally the larger of the two. In an equal-sided letter, like M or O, observe what ornamental parts are opposite to each other.
Enlarging or reducing Small Letters.
In drawing (or copying) small letters, be careful to make the stems of equal width or thickness, and those which pass above or below the line of equal and proportionate height or length. The tops of t's should always be lower than those of the other long letters, as in writing, and the dots of the i's in a line with the tops of the t's.
Books of Alphabets, &c.