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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: 77
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Calligraphic letter ``U'' in 15th century gothic style]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-letter-U-q90-120x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic letter ``U'' in 15th century gothic style]")
Calligraphic letter “U” in 15th century gothic style
Black-letter (Old English) letter “U” 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: Calligraphic letter ``H'' in 15th century gothic style]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-letter-H-q75-98x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic letter ``H'' in 15th century gothic style]")
Calligraphic letter “H” in 15th century gothic style
Black-letter (Old English) letter “H” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. [more...] [$]
![[picture: E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L from English Gothic Letters 15th Century]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-E-L-q75-909x200.jpg "[picture: E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L from English Gothic Letters 15th Century]")
E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L from English Gothic Letters 15th Century
Letters “E” “F” “G” “H” “I” “J” “K” and “L” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letter P from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/001-Alphabet-After-Serlio-letterP-q75-199x200.jpg "[picture: Letter P from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
Letter P from “Alphabet after Serlio”
The letter P taken from Fig. 1. [$]
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