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 192
lightfullettering (123). There are two ways of designing ornamentallettering. The one is to compel the letters intothe shape of ornament. This was the idea of theByzantine and other primitive illuminators. Butas early as the sixth or seventh centuries writersbegan to be diverted from the path of… … 134- STENCIL PLATE. most beautiful of the interlacing initials in Irishand Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of the eighth, ninthand tenth centuries are not those which break outincontinently into heads and legs, in the wildendeavour to persuade one that this ingeniousstrapwork is something more than…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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