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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: 166.---Italian Gothic Initials, Giov. Palatino, 16th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/166-Italian-Gothic-Initials-q85-128x200.jpg "[picture: 166.---Italian Gothic Initials, Giov. Palatino, 16th Century.]")
166.—Italian Gothic Initials, Giov. Palatino, 16th Century.
Figures 164 to 166 show alphabets of Gothic pen-drawn capitals that will serve as a basis for such adaptations as are shown in the modern examples 152 and 153. (p. 140) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Calligraphic letter ``C'' in 15th century gothic style]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-letter-C-q90-140x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic letter ``C'' in 15th century gothic style]")
Calligraphic letter “C” in 15th century gothic style
Black-letter (Old English) letter C from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. The counters have reversed oak leaves drawn inside them. Note, this letter probably looks more like a T or J to most modern readers, and if you flipped it, it would make a B. As a result, try to use [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter A]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/167-German-Gothic-Initials-A-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter A]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter A
This initial letter “A” 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...] [$]
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter H]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/167-German-Gothic-Initials-H-q75-124x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter H]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter H
This initial letter “H” is suitable for use as a decorative initial or drop cap; it is an old German letter-form, and might not be easily recognised today, especally by people [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: 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...] [$]
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