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 91
very much a question ofperiod: engravers of the seventeenth and eighteenthand especially the nineteenth centuries fell on evildays for design : with us it is a question of taste.We have lost hold of tradition, but we have freerchoice ; and out of our eclecticism, may I call it,better things should… … 37- IRON INLAID WITH SILVER. BYZANTINE,
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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