Items matching fonts taken from Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)
fonts: Either baptismal fonts, used in a religious rite, in wich case a font is a sort of stone basin, or typefaces, used to encode a script or alphabet or writing system.
one matching result.
Scans from The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval collected and engraved by Freeman Gage Delamotte (1814 – 1862); London, Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1879
If anyone is interested, I’ll try and do some better scans of the alphabets and examples of calligraphy and calligraphic initials in this book.
(Note: Mediæval is the older British English spelling of Mediaeval, or Medieval).
The full title page is transcribed alongside its image. This is an oblong octavo with alphabets printed in various colours including red, green and brown.
I found an online copy of a similar book by the same author at illuminated-books.com but it is for non-commercial use only.
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