Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen (1910)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 74
ncehere. The numerals, as we know them, or evenas they were written in the 15th century, do notbear any marked resemblance to the genuineArabic ; numbers 1 and 9, and the all-importantcypher, o, are the only Eastern figures which seemto claim direct oriental ancestry. The figures of the 15th… … 37. GOLD LETTERS PICKED OUT OF BLACK PAINT. SPANISH. AEGRS? 38. PAINTED ON WOOD. ITALIAN. 15TH CENTURY AEIOEQlR5TVY 39. PAINTED ON GLAZED EARTHENWARE. ENGLISH. 18TH CENTURY. 40 Art in the Alphabet. really an equal-limbed 7 placed (as it wouldnaturally fall) so as to rest upon its two ends: itis not…
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