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 195
i35- VARIETIES OF THE LETTER A FROM EARLYPRINTED BOOKS. and some of the most charming letters of the six-teenth century depend upon interlacing for theirornament (144, 145). The slight foliation of the terminations of theletters develops finally into free, and it may beflorid, growth, which,… … 136. LETTERS GROWING INTO ORNAMENT. kind, may be considered either as part of theletter, or as ornament associated with it (62, 136);it is often difficult to say which. The other way of designing ornamental lettersmight be regarded as a carrying further of theidea of foliation ; but it carries it…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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