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 135
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 … 6g. merchants mark.1616. air of telling us more thanit does. Was that theintention of the carver,or was it not ? A printers or a mer-chants mark (69, 70) isoften built up of letteringnot easy to read; and itneed not be readable; itis his sign, known to besuch; and that is enough.So, too, a stamp,…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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