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 140
arly not anything like the sameelasticity in Roman or Gothic lettering as inArab, nor have we the mastery of those Easternornamentists over the signs and symbols withwhich we have to deal; but the lesson of theirwork ought not to be entirely lost upon us ; andit would be interesting to see what we… … 76. THE WORD PROPHET IN ITALICS. ornament, and to hide it just as effectually as seemed good to us—to screen it, if need be, from all but sympathetic observation. The few experiments here given (75, 76, 78) do not, in the least, pretend to show what is to be done in this way: they are but a…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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