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 171
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… … 113- CYPHER, TG. For my own part I prefer, as arule, either a monogram or acypher to any compromise betweenthe two ; but it is in every casethe result which justifies themethod or fails to do so. Thereis this objection to the hybridform of design, that, according asit is the monogrammic sign or…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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