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 213
rom 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 tint(152). This filigree ofwhite ornament (143,152, 153) served also (like the fine white dots withwhich the black between was often… … 152. WOODCUT. FRENCH. for the engraver to do,ornament in his woodblock (154), and he didit, to very decorativepurpose. Such workaffords perhaps the firstinstance of white-lineengraving, the inven-tion of which is attri-buted to Bewick. He,no doubt, cultivated itfurther, but the orna- ras to cut…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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