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 150
ther the letters form, as in thebeginning they apparently did, the first lettersof a word (XP for XPI2T02), or whether they arethe initials of a mans several names, as is themore common use nowadays, does not matter,nor whether they are used as badge, symbol, ortrade-mark; the point is that it is… … SAb 87. MONOGRAMS. n6 commonly hear the interlacing of any two orthree letters described as a monogram. Theinterlacing I.H.S., for example, whether we readthe letters to signify Jesus Hominum Salvatoror IH20Y3, are not properly called the sacredmonogram, nor the intertwining A and fi, nor…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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