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 155
igidly fixed, are the most serviceable. Lettersin themselves florid, such as the late Germancapitals, are by no means promising; they areinvolved enough already, and quite too fanciful tobe further played with. Mr. Barclay, from whose book I have, by thepermission of Mr. H. Soane, borrowed some… … 94- BY HOLBEIN. 95. BY HOLBEIN. character render it unfit. It is quite true thatLombardic capitals, for example, are exceptionallyamenable, all the more so as their shapes are notso definitely fixed as the Roman, and one maywith less offence take liberty with them ; but,though there is something…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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