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 244
l82. FLINT INLAY FROM A CHURCH IN NORFOLK. severer use of monogram and cypher, in a waywhich yet does not call undue attention to them,is shown in the painting upon the roof of Sellchurch (181). A monogram from another old Norfolk church(182) shows how the form may be quieted by the 209 way it is… … • 183. WOOD-CARVING FROM AN OLD SCOTTISH CASKET. between the black and the white, it is not con-tinuous; and where there is no background offlint it is left to the eye to make it good. The confusion of lettering with a backgroundl.o. p 2IO of ornament is easily effected. It is curious howabsolutely…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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