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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: 76
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter B]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/167-German-Gothic-Initials-B-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter B]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter B
This initial letter “B” 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...]
[$]![[picture: Letter S from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterS-q75-189x200.jpg "[picture: Letter S from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
![[picture: Letter K from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterK-q75-240x200.jpg "[picture: Letter K from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
![[picture: 147.---Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/147-Italian-Blackletter-Title-Page-q75-131x200.jpg "[picture: 147.---Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.]")
147.—Italian Blackletter Title-Page. Jacopus Foresti, 1497.
“The examples of old lettering reproduced in figures 147, 148 and 149, together with the drawings by Mr. Goodhue, will indicate the proper spacing of Blackletter; but in most of the pages here devoted to illustrating the individual forms the letters have been spaced too wide for their proper effect [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: 66.---Modern Greek Type. Selwyn Image.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/066-Modern-Greek-Type-q75-293x200.jpg "[picture: 66.---Modern Greek Type. Selwyn Image.]")
66.—Modern Greek Type. Selwyn Image.
“The Greek type designed for the Macmillan Company of England, by Mr. Selwyn Image, [Fig. 66], is of sufficient interest to be shown here, despite the fact that it is not strictly [...] returned to the more classic Greek form, although the result may at first glance seem illegible to the reader familiar with the more common cursive letters.” (p. 73) [more...]
[$]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.
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