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 90
ter of less practical im-portance to us, seeing that the days of thatparticular character are, except for occasionalpurposes, already passed. There is no reason why grounding out shouldnot more often be employed in stone or marblewhen the scale allows it; it is employed to ad-mirable effect in the… … inscriptions invariably were. In the little Byzan-tine iron shield at the end of the chapter (37) theincised lettering is filled in with silver. Betweensunken lettersand letters in re-lief, the choiceis determinedpartly by theconsiderationas to which isthe easier to do,partly by whichwill be the…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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