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 216
!55- WOODCUT INITIALS. does not pretend to give the effect of incision. Itis odd that many an old engraver should havehesitated between two such opposite opinions,and, in the same series of letters, have rathervulgarised some (153) by shading them andtreated others (152) quite tastefully. … I56. WOODCUT INITIALS ATTRIBUTED TO LUCAS CRAXACH, XIV. PICTORIAL INITIALS. The initials of the sixteenth century printers, aswill be seen by the illustrations to this as wellas to the preceding chapter, are not so muchdesigned by the artist as decorated by him. Itis not the letters which he has…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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