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 130
lves may be so playfully treated as to bedisguised; they may be intricately interlaced,they may branch out into confusing ornament, orbe half hidden in scrollery intertwined with it. In the case of the cunningly designed initialpage from Mr. Walter Cranes Book of WeddingDays (65), the June roses… … into ornament out of whichmeaning emerges as you look. In the masterly design of Israelvan Meckenen (66), the lettersof his name, Israel M, are delibe-rately designed to look like scroll-work merely, in which a casualobserver would not suspect therelurked a meaning. They form, itwill be seen, a…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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