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 158
A. b. c. 97. MONOGRAMS AND CYPHER OF T H E. only in the case of a monogram decorating some-thing as likely to be seen from one point of viewas another, is it excusable to place them at variousangles of inclination. There is an obvious and soon-reached limit tothe number of letters which can be… … MONOGRAMS OF THE LETTERS THE. 124 In order to illustrate in a practical way some ofthe points above ^discussed, I have taken the lettersof the word THE and made monograms of them(97, 98, 99, 100). It will be seen that they lendthemselves to a variety of combinations, some ofwhich read in the order…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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