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Decorative Alphabets and Initials Softcover - 1959
by Nesbitt, Alexander
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
Description
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Details
- Title Decorative Alphabets and Initials
- Author Nesbitt, Alexander
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1959
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 57144
- ISBN 9780486205441 / 0486205444
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 10.94 x 8.41 x 0.47 in (27.79 x 21.36 x 1.19 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Alphabets, Lettering
- Dewey Decimal Code 745.6
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From the rear cover
The book has been carefully arranged and annotated so that the students of letters and types may have a complete understanding of decorative alphabets and initials. The work is divided into three parts. Part One deals entirely with manuscript initials as they were used from the 8th to the 15th century. It includes Celtic initials, rare designs from the Bible of Charles the Bald, and incised letters from the monument of Richard II in Westminster Abbey. Part Two contains initials from printed books, starting with the 15th century and running through the 18th. Here are the fanciful creations of the 16th-century woodcutters: initials illustrated with children, cherubs, birds, beasts, flowers, legends, and grotesque heads. The works of the later engravers, writing, masters, and baroque and rococo designers follows in order. Part Three attempts to arrange the great weeds jungle of Victorian letters and types and concludes with the 20th-century alphabets such as the distinctive wood engravings of Edward Wadsworth. Each section has an historical introduction and each plate has a descriptive caption.