Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 40
here a series of grotesques, with theview of illustrating my meaning, and I would fain n-ive more, but space will notpermit me t<> do so. The initial letter S, formed of a bird, is n characteristic Celtic grotesque(Fig. 17). It is quaint and interesting, and is sufficiently unlike a living… … Fig. 19. it is so suggestive as to call forth the thought of a bird. It should be noticed;in connection with this figure, that the interstices between certain portions of thecreature are rilled by a knot.This is well — the wholething being an ornament;and not a-naturalistic repre-sentation. Fig. IS…
Decoration and ornament
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