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 112
her hand, it might almost demand to be turnedinto ornament. The label is seen in its simplest form on the drugvases of the Italian majolica painters, just a bandof bold inscription between two lines which, uponexamination, turn out to be the edges of a simplelabel, the indelible, and, at the same… … 52. CARVING FROM THE CHOIR OF THE CATHEDRAL ATALBI. ment scroll ; and so do the phylacteries in thehands of prophets and others, though these are 78 53- PART OF AN IVORY READING DESK. made also to take a form more deliberately orna-mental, in order to occupy the background, orconveniently to cross…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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