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 76
the severity ofhis lettering, as well as the stateliness with whichit is ordered. Nesfields lettering in the title page of his Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture (24) 4* is unmistakably very much what he would havedesigned for a brass. There is a dignified austerityabout it not usually to be found… … 26. BACK OF CARVED PINE CH. STALL, I5IO. inscription should be read as you run ; enough ifit is apparent that there is an inscription which,if you care to pause and study it, you may read. Accordingly, the rules which apply to print ormanuscript may in monumental inscription be re-laxed. It is no…
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