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 166
practice, at one time almost invariable in cyphers in which the flowing line prevails, of reversing the letter; though the sloping form of the writing was in itself a temptation (given the ideal of symmetry) to avoid the difficulty of design by simply turning the device over, or turning over so… … 32
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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