Alphabet Book Piledetails

Several antique books of alphabets all open in a pile:

1. Manfredi from 1564, with the medieval music used as a cover;

2. Ornamental Alphabets by Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1879 (with the green letters);

3. The Art of Illuminating by W. R. Symms (1860), with red and brown letters showing;

4. Paragraphs on Printing by Bruce Rogers, 1943 – in the background, with the large constructed “R”;

5. Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw, at top right.