A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 230
this plan will be byfar the most satisfactory one that could be adopted inthe interests of all parties concerned. Under the head of Old English we have numerousfamilies of characters—Black letter, Church text,Elizabethan, &c., &c., into the various styles of whichour limits forbid us to… … Fig. 37. we give a word in the Elizabethan character, which isperhaps the best adapted for business purposes. Churchtext is not well fitted for general inscriptions, as it is, ofcourse, more or less associated with sacred things, andas it has varied from time to time a great amount ofstudy is…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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