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![[picture: Front Cover, Letters and Lettering]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-345x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Letters and Lettering]")
Images from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown, Boston, 1921.
A note printed immediately after the title and impressions pages starts out, “This book is intended for those who have felt the need of a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged for convenient use.”
Frank Chouteay Brown was an architect based in Boston; this book, Letters and Lettering, was for many American architects and designers their first introduction to Roman monumental capital letters. The book had five editions, of which the first was in 1902.
Title: Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples
City: Boston
Date: 1921
Total items: 76
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 156.---Uncial Gothic Capitals. 14th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/156-Uncial-Gothic-Capitals-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: 156.---Uncial Gothic Capitals. 14th Century.]")
156.—Uncial Gothic Capitals. 14th Century.
When the Gothic Uncial capitals were cut in stone and marble there was naturally a corresponding change in character, as is shown in the Italian examples illustrated in 160 and 161. These examples, which are reproduced from rubbings, exhibit the characteristic stone cut forms very clearly. A Gothic Uncial alphabet redrawn from a German brass is illustrated in 162. The group of specimens from 154 to 159 exhibit the chronological growth of the Uncial capitals, which were used, as has been said, with the various small Blackletter [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Modern American Letters/Maxfield Parrish (upper case)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/140-Maxfield-Parrish-Lettering-uppercase-q75-338x200.jpg "[picture: Modern American Letters/Maxfield Parrish (upper case)]")
Modern American Letters/Maxfield Parrish (upper case)
The majiscule letters (also called upper case, or capital letters) from Maxfield Parrish’s (incomplete) alphabet given in Fig. 140. The largest file here is at the original scan resolution of 2400dpi. [more...] [$]
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter J]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/168-German-Gothic-Initials-J-125x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter J]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter J
This intensely ornate swirly calligraphic capital letter “J” is suitable for use as a decorative initial or drop cap; it is an old German letter-form, and might not be easily recognised today, especally by people [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letter Z from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterZ-q75-194x200.jpg "[picture: Letter Z from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
Letter Z from “Alphabet after Serlio”
The letter Z taken from Fig. 2. [$]
![[picture: Letter V from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/001-Alphabet-After-Serlio-letterV-q75-275x200.jpg "[picture: Letter V from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
Letter V from “Alphabet after Serlio”
The letter V taken from Fig. 1. [$]
Images from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown, Boston, 1921.
A note printed immediately after the title and impressions pages starts out, “This book is intended for those who have felt the need of a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged for convenient use.”
Frank Chouteay Brown was an architect based in Boston; this book, Letters and Lettering, was for many American architects and designers their first introduction to Roman monumental capital letters. The book had five editions, of which the first was in 1902.
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