Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 104
a Greekfret; but it is seldom that lettering comes amiss.The one objection to a border of lettering is, thedifficulty there is likely to be in reading it from oneposition. That, however, does not apply to brassesand tombstones which you can walk round, or to athing like a book cover, which you take… … 45- PART OF AN IRON DOOR IN TOLEDO CATHEDRAL. 70 fourth (or bottom border) making it read as in thetop one. This is seen in a portion of an iron doorfrom the cathedral at Toledo (45). In a circular disc, where the ring of inscriptionis precisely analogous to the rectangular frameto a slab, the…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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