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 212
relieve themselves quite enough againsta more solid scrollwork, as may be seen in a Frenchalphabet of which two letters are here repro-duced (148), where the niello-like enrichment givesimportance to otherwise modest initials, even ifif it does not make them easier to read than theywould be without…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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