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 137
alist takes histime to puzzle out the words, O, thou satisfier of wants. Thewriting of the Arabs is, of itself,enough to show that they were notoften in a hurry. In the use of it inornament they took it for grantedthat the reader would be more thanleisurely. Prohibited by the laws ofthe Prophet… … 72. RUSSIAN ORNAMENTAL LETTERINGVASNETZOFF. ;y victor ingenuity and ornamental instinct not beinghampered by any popular prejudice against freeand fanciful treatment of the alphabet, they didmarvels in the way of beautiful design, more ela-borate it is true than is our Western wont, butundeniably…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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