George Bickham, George Shelley, and George Snell were expert writing masters and emphatic proponents of the roundhand script.
Snell's relatively sedate example was the basis for Matthew Carter's 1966 revival, which took advantage of the freedom of photographic typesetting techniques to employ authentically lavish kerned strokes.
Matthew Carter based his design on the copperplate writing examples of George Snell. Photographic typesetting enabled the inclusion of lavish swash joins and strokes.