This flourished fraktur capital letter M was pasted into a sketchbook of romantic lettering that some wonderful British gentlemen put together during the nineteenth century. Exuberant hand-drawn scripts became popular after Gutenberg's innovative moveable type was introduced, 1450's. Scribes no longer were needed to copy texts, so they could go hog wild inventing letterforms for the new middle class to copy (in order to look and feel more upper class, of course.)
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