First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over purple boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9�" x 6" (1.2 kg); pp 335; Translated by Lenore Lengefeld; Includes: Illustrated half-title page; Black & white plates; List of sources; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199812 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Initials and Decorative Alphabets

Publisher

Poole: Blandford Press

Publication Date

1985

ISBN 10

0713716401

ISBN 13

9780713716405

Binding

Hardback in Dust Wrapper.

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Seller catalogs

Craft, Needlework, Handicrafts

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Synopsis

Type designers and scribes creating manuscripts and books have always been fascinated with ornamenting initials in documents or books. Such initials often were the only decoration of a text or book. Throughout their history they reflect the spirit prevailing in the art of bookmaking and the art of writing in thevarious epochs. This comprehensive volume offers a wide variety of painted and printed initials, ornamented letters and whole alphabets of initials for anyone interested in type and graphics. Examples from Carlovingian Renaissance to the present are supplemented by fanciful variations from the pen of young designers. Among the subjects treated in this book are manuscript initials, printed initials, sets of initials, contemporary variations of individual letters, and fanciful, evocative letters.

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Text: English, German (translation)

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BookLovers of Bath is based in the rural idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England and actually very nearly in Bath. After 20 years of being ?internet only? I have now opened a shop, Fact or Fable, in the premises of our now-closed Post Office. With over 10,000 books in my, recently shrunken, storage unit and another 5,000 or so in the shop I run an old-fashioned book business with every book listed, graded, picked, packed and posted by my own fair hand? abetted by my Jack Russells who are really, not, helpful.

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