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 134
rna-mental lettering is determined only by the purposeof it. What is meant to be hidden may well lie hidfrom all but those who have the key of the mystery.Even where the secret is an open one, there maybe a charm in the mystery in which it is wrapped.If it is a riddle, we have a right to expect it… … 68. VISIGOTHIC VOTIVE CROWN OF THE 7TH CENTURY. a seventeenth and eighteenth century cypher,which after all our pains remains to us amystery. The handsome panel from a cabinet inthe Victoria and Albert Museum (105) has all the H 2 100
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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