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 98
ke . somewords stand forth in a design, and others toshrink back; it is the business of a designer to give 63 such words as he may introduce their due andprecise value, to make some perhaps larger thanothers, some more solid, to reduce certain of themto relative insignificance ; but reason and art… … 41. ENGRAVING ON COPPER BY H. S. BEHAM, 1542. artist has always felt himself free to depart fromthe usual practice when that did not suit hispurpose. If he had no need of any definite line,he preferred perhaps merely to break the surfaceof the background with quite irregular lettering.He made bold,…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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