Galleries: index · 
· 
![[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: Calligraphic letter ``A'' in 15th century gothic style]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-letter-A-q97-112x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic letter ``A'' in 15th century gothic style]")
Calligraphic letter “A” in 15th century gothic style
Black-letter (Old English) letter A from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 147.---Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/147-Italian-Blackletter-Title-Page-q75-131x200.jpg "[picture: 147.---Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.]")
147.—Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.
“The examples of old lettering reproduced in figures 147, 148 and 149, together with the drawings by Mr. Goodhue, will indicate the proper spacing of Blackletter; but in most of the pages here devoted to illustrating the individual forms the letters have been spaced too wide for their proper effect [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Calligraphic flourish]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/156-Uncial-Gothic-Capitals-detail-flourish-swirl-q80-372x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic flourish]")
![[picture: 171.---English Gothic Capitals. 16th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/171-English-Gothic-Capitals-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: 171.---English Gothic Capitals. 16th Century.]")
171.—English Gothic Capitals. 16th Century.
“Figures 170 to 173 exhibit a group of Gothic capitals more or less allied in character and all pen letters.” (p. 140) [more...] [$]
![[picture: 161.---Venetian Gothic Capitals. 15th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/161-Venetian-Gothic-Capitals-q90-125x200.jpg "[picture: 161.---Venetian Gothic Capitals. 15th Century.]")
161.—Venetian Gothic Capitals. 15th Century.
Any of the minuscule forms of Blackletter which have been illustrated may be used with the Gothic capitals of figures 165 – 5, 166, 177, 179, 185, 188-9; or with such Uncial capitals as are illustrated in 155 to 162; care being taken, of course, that these capitals are made to agree in style and weight with the small letters chosen. [...] [more...] [$]
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.
Note: If you got here from a search engine and don’t see what you were looking for, it might have moved onto a different page within this gallery.
