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 240
an Gothic, but it is neverhappy. It is seldom very desirable to break the surface oflettering with enrichment, unless indeed the ideais to merge it in ornament, to devise a mystery ofrichest scrollery out of which, as you dwell uponit, the words grow gradually into significance.Van Meckenen did… … I79. FROM THE BACK OF AN OLD GERMAN WOODEN SEAT. 206 enclosed by them is overrun with florid foliage,growing in some cases through from letter tobackground; but so compact is the ornament, soclosely does it accommodate itself to the spaces ofone or the other, that, though there is only anarrow line…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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