Sign writing and glass embossing : a complete practical illustrated manual of the art, to which are added numerous alphabets (1890)
Callingham, James · Philadelphia : H. C. Baird & co. · leaf 122
raised block.But in this case, the shadow, which is caused by thesuns rays, will be exhibited on the body of the lettersthemselves, and not on the surface on which they areformed. A sunk letter cannot project a shadow beyondits own boundary. This shadow, then, will be on theopposite side, though on… … 10* 114 SIGN WRITING AND GLASS EMBOSSING. The other kind of sunk letters is formed on a some-what similar principle as regards light and shade, butthe shadow, if any, is less defined. A light side and adark side are generally adopted for the vertical strolvcsin representing these letters, the…
Embossing (Printing) · Signs and signboards, Glass
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Vaticinia, sive, Prophetiae Abbatis Ioachimi, [and] Anselmi Episcopi Marsicani; cum imaginibus aere incisis, correctione, et pulcritudine, plurium manuscriptorum exemplari ope, et variar imagin tabulis, et delineationibù, aliis antehac impressis longè praestantiora; quibus Rota, et Oraculum Turcicum maxime considerationis adiecta sunt; una cum praefatione et adnotationibus Paschalini Regiselmi (1600)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-vaticiniasivepro00joac-116-66.webp)
