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
o thischapter (79), might well beless easy to read than it is, and yet perfectly fulfil its function. We have no means of knowing with what degree of clearness the meaning is expressed in writing which we do not understand. All the unlearned can say of the Icelandic (71), the Sla-vonic (72, y$),… … ^k the decorative use made of it. Possiblyit would strike us as less entirelyornamental if we could read it ; wefind it perhaps all the more ornamentalbecause it cannot intrude upon ourignorance; but there is no doubtwhatever of its being ornamentallyrendered. It seems certain, too, that theEastern…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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