Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen : with an introductory essay on Art in the alphabet
A lettering sourcebook compiled by designer Lewis Foreman Day and published by Batsford in London in 1898 for craftsmen, signwriters and decorators. Plates give complete alphabets one to a page, from plain Roman capitals to Gothic blackletter, curled and flourished display letters, and medieval illuminated initials reversed white on black grounds.
















































































































