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
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… … 153. woodcut. FRENCH. 179
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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