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 196
art very ob-viously added tothe letter; it isas if the gold-smith had firstmade his lettersand then beltedthem. Suchadded ornamenthas generally theappearance ofan excrescence;here it is judi-ciously employed, and results, for once, in adequatedecoration. The abuse of ornamental lettering is patent… … I37. GROTESQUE WOODCUT. I464. 162 ornament as a convenient means of disguisingfaults of penmanship or draughtsmanship. As to the use of ornamental lettering, there is
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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