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 170
III. BOOKBINDING TOOLED WITH CYPHER DIAPER J LREVERSED. 135 lines of another letter give a third which is perhapsnot needed. The letter E in the wrought-ironcypher illustrated (109) might be the accidentalresult of inverting the B, or vice versa. A difficulty with which the designer has tocontend… … 112. CYPHERS, NOT REVERSED, CARVED. unite as it were inevitably into a single sign,whereas the other refuses obstinately to give upits independence. The result is, properly speaking,neither a monogram nor a cypher; but somethingbetween the two, and, by reason of its indeter-minateness, not quite…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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