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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: Calligraphic letter ``L'' in 15th century gothic style]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-letter-L-q97-98x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic letter ``L'' in 15th century gothic style]")
Calligraphic letter “L” in 15th century gothic style
Black-letter (Old English) letter L from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letters U V W X Y and Z from English gothic Letters, 15th Century]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-U-Z-q75-833x200.jpg "[picture: Letters U V W X Y and Z from English gothic Letters, 15th Century]")
Letters U V W X Y and Z from English gothic Letters, 15th Century
Black-letter (Old English) inital letters “U” “V” “W” “X” “Y” and “Z” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. It is possible that the author of the modern (1921) book added the J, the U and possibly the Y and W when he drew them for the book. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 168.---German Gothic Initials (J to Q)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/168-German-Gothic-Initials-J-Q-287x200.jpg "[picture: 168.---German Gothic Initials (J to Q)]")
168.—German Gothic Initials (J to Q)
Figures 167 to 169 show a more elaborate but an excellent and typical variety of this form of capital, which is one of the most beautiful and distinctive of Gothic letters. Shorn of its fussy small lines the main skeleton is eminently virile; and, though extremely difficult to draw, it [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter L]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/168-German-Gothic-Initials-L-121x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter L]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter L
This swirly calligraphic ornate intense capital L is suitable for use as a decorative initial or drop cap; it is an old German letter-form, and might not be easily recognised today, especally by people [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: M, N, O, P, Q, T from English Gothic Letters 15th Century]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-M-T-q75-826x200.jpg "[picture: M, N, O, P, Q, T from English Gothic Letters 15th Century]")
M, N, O, P, Q, T from English Gothic Letters 15th Century
Letters “M” “N” “O” “P” “Q” and “T” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. The M is not very legible by today’s standards, but might work as an initial letter or drop cap. [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.
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