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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 218

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y of theartist. Only, when he goes so far as to lose sightof the fact that it is a background he is designing,he is plainly at fault. The best men never quite did this, or theywould not have been the best. A great designer,such as Holbein for example, designed his figuresto compose with the letter;…

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