The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies
Harold Bayley's 1912 study traces letters, words, and folk motifs back to the emblems found in early European paper, published by Barnes & Noble for readers of symbolism, folklore, and printing history. Its plates are hundreds of numbered line tracings of watermarks — crowns, shields, serpents, monograms, orbs, and horned heads — drawn in uniform single-weight outline on tinted paper, usable as ready-made pictograms, marks, or logo skeletons.
