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| 18th Century Copperplate Handwriting |
 | | Such was the success of copperplate that by the end of the 18th century it had been adopted in France (where it has coexisted with ronde), Spain, and Italy. |
 | | Learning 18th century copperplate handwriting is a matter of learning to write the capital letters (called majuscules by calligraphers and "upper case" by printers), the small letters (minuscules or "lower case"), as well as the numbers and a few symbols (shown in Figures 1, 2, and 4). |
 | | Educated people of the 18th century copied these examples to improve their handwriting; an exact reproduction of the examples in the copybooks represented an ideal, a polar star, by which the student was guided; however, like modern handwriting, everyday 18th century handwriting seldom rose to the level of "calligraphy". |
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