Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen : with an introductory essay on Art in the alphabet
A lettering manual compiled by designer Lewis Foreman Day and published by Batsford in London in 1898 for craftsmen, signwriters, and students copying historical alphabets. Plates run from Roman capitals in open outline through blackletter, Lombardic, and ornamented initials, drawn in flat black on plain grounds, giving designers complete letterforms to trace, redraw, or build display type from.
