335 pages, illustrated throughout. Bug marks on the lower page edges. Or cloth boards in rubbed dust-jacket which has the remnants of price stickers on its front cover. Among the subjects treated in the book are manuscript initials, printed initials, sets of initials, contemporary variations of individual letters, and fanciful, evocative letters. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Initials and Decorative Alphabets

Publisher

Blandford Press, Poole

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0713716401

ISBN 13

9780713716405

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First English Language Edition.

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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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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