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The typograpic ornaments and “stock blocks” or “stock cuts” here are taken from The Little Book of Typographic Ornament by David Jury (Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2015). I may add more later that are from other sources.
The book shows ornaments going back to the 1700s and includes access to download 300dpi digital images; these have been dithered, making them hard to re-use; I’ve processed them to give them clean edges.
Title: Typographic Ornaments
Published by: Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
City: London
Date: 1850
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Chapterheads with cherubs, dragons, fish, neptune, flowers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TypographicOrnaments/wm/big/539-chapterheads-with-cherubs-q75-187x200.jpg "[picture: Chapterheads with cherubs, dragons, fish, neptune, flowers]")
Chapterheads with cherubs, dragons, fish, neptune, flowers
Three separate chapterheads: one with two cherubs, or naked boys, each holding one end of a rope, or a pipe with a bulb on the end, perhaps about to squirt some giant flowers; one with a Greek male head (possibly neptune) in a circle with large fish all round; one with two dragons or wyverns having the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: stock block: scales, or equal-arm balance.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TypographicOrnaments/wm/big/524-scales-q75-231x200.jpg "[picture: stock block: scales, or equal-arm balance.]")
stock block: scales, or equal-arm balance.
In an equal arm balance like this one you can compare the weights of things in the two pans; often you use a set of standardized weights in one pan and add them until the lever at the top is level, [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: stock block: Young male servant carrying a boar's head]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TypographicOrnaments/wm/big/368-young-male-servant-carrying-boars-head-q75-200x200.jpg "[picture: stock block: Young male servant carrying a boar's head]")
stock block: Young male servant carrying a boar’s head
This young man carries a platter of food: a roasted pig’s head with fruit or vegetables around it, on a platter. He wears a ruff round his neck, a tunic over a long-sleeved shirt, and simple shoes; presumably he also wears hose, or tights. He carries the platter level with his face. The image is circular and the space that itsn’t the food or the youth [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Stock block: Child kneeling in a circular vignette]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TypographicOrnaments/wm/big/535-child-kneeling-with-flowers-and-butterflies-q75-202x200.jpg "[picture: Stock block: Child kneeling in a circular vignette]")
Stock block: Child kneeling in a circular vignette
This Victorian engraving shows a boy (probably) kneeling within a circular border; he holds a boquet of flowers in one hand as he gazes at a butterly perched on his other hand. There’s a circle of [...] [more...] [$]
The typograpic ornaments and “stock blocks” or “stock cuts” here are taken from The Little Book of Typographic Ornament by David Jury (Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2015). I may add more later that are from other sources.
The book shows ornaments going back to the 1700s and includes access to download 300dpi digital images; these have been dithered, making them hard to re-use; I’ve processed them to give them clean edges.
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![[picture: Stock block: deer skull]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TypographicOrnaments/wm/big/534-deer-skull-q75-300x200.jpg "[picture: Stock block: deer skull]")
