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
I5g. WOODCUT INITIALS. i84 picture, seen through it always at a disadvantage;but the blame is the artists, who did not takeheed of what he had to do—did not really design,but only drew. His figures appear to be tryingto get out of the way of the letter, or the letterlooks as if it had been planted…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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