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A history of the old English letter foundries : with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography. (1887)

Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 102

An illustration from A history of the old English letter foundries : with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography., 1887, leaf 102 — ned, Foreign, and Peculiar Characters. Si letters, and we frequently find in their works, both sacred and profane, theinitial I of Genesis representing the Creation, the D representing Davidplaying on his harp, the P representing the conversion of St. Paul, and so on.Armorial initials were also… … 14. Pierced Initial, at the Oxford University Press. Ante 1700.

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