Items matching letterw taken from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

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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.”

Initial letter W

Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The drop capital (drop cap) “W” from Fig. 67 shows a naked man in a forest. He plays a flute. His bare feet protrude from the boundary of the initial. You can see this initial as it was set in type [...]

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Added: 2006-08-14

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Letters U V W X Y and Z from English gothic Letters, 15th Century

Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

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 possibl [...]

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Added: 2007-08-28

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