Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
A reference collection compiled by Oscar Jennings and published by Methuen in London in 1908, reproducing more than thirteen hundred ornamental woodcut initials from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printers for typographers, printers and collectors. The letters are black-ground or outline blocks filled with figures, kings, tents, foliage and flowers, usable as drop caps, monograms, spot motifs or sources of hatching and border patterns.
