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
at Venice (150). The letter-shapes aresimply emphasised by a double outline of white,and the ground patterned with well-fitting orna-ment, which not merely reduces it to the value ofa tint, but, by the way its detail follows the shapeof the interstices, helps to define the form of theletter. In the… … tnstf~jsyp3 1 *\*P?1mi 3 wJWj/pg J 151. WOODCUT INITIALS. ITALIAN. L.O. i78 An alternative to this,which suggested itselfalmost from the firstto engravers, was to letthe initial stand outwhite upon the ground ofblack (151), which mightor might not be reduced,by means of whitepattern on it, to a…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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