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ORNAMENTAL ALPHABETS, ANCIENTandMEDIÆVAL,from the Eighth Century, with Numerals, including Gothic, Church-Text, large and small; German, Italian, Arabesque, Initials for Illumination, &c., for the Use of Missal Painters, Illuminators, &c., &c. Drawn and Engraved byF. Delamotte. Royal 8vo, oblong, cloth, post free, 4s.
“A charming little volume this is—evidently a labour of love with the artist, otherwise we should not have seen combined in its production research the most painstaking, with industry the most indefatigable. It is a book that old Lord Monboddo would have hung over, as he turned the leaves, delighted. It is designed, the title-page tells us, for carvers, masons, engravers, decorative painters, lithographers, architectural and decorative draughtsmen, and others; or, as they say in that little dry chip of Latin, almost part and parcel of our vernacular,cum cæteris paribus. Beyond these, however, it will hardly fail to interest the linguist, the philologist, or the grammarian. The work is, in simple truth, a curiosity. An examination of it would not have been disdained by scholars old or new, from Scaliger to Ruddiman, from Tooke to Trench, from Crichton to Mezzofanti. Yet the work is simply, as its title tells us, a book of ornamental alphabets—alphabets ancient and mediæval, from the eighth century, with numerals, Roman and Arabic. Among the letters are Gothic, Church-Text, German, Italian, Arabesque, Ornamental, and besides all these, Initials for Illumination. There are fifty pages, or rather plates, in all—each brilliantly emblazoned. The book is complete. It is the successful realization of a very happy thought, but one thus perfectly realized, through how much toil and assiduous investigation! We can very heartily commend it to the attention of those for whom it has been especially intended by its ingenious collector and designer, Mr. F. Delamotte.”—Sun.London: E. & F. N. SPON, 16, Bucklersbury.
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EXAMPLESofMODERN ALPHABETS, PLAIN & ORNAMENTAL, including German, Old English, Saxon, Italic, Perspective, Greek, Hebrew, Court Hand, Engrossing, Tuscan, Riband, Gothic, Rustic, and Arabesque, with several Original Designs, and an Analysis of the Roman and Old English Alphabets, Large and Small, and Numerals. Collected and Engraved byF. Delamotte. Royal 8vo, oblong, 4s. post free.
London: E. and F. N. SPON, 16, Bucklersbury.
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DELAMOTTE’S DESIGNSforEMBROIDERY: Containing Initials, Emblems, Cyphers, Monograms, Ornamental Borders, Ecclesiastical Devices. Royal 8vo, oblong, in Illuminated Boards, 2s. 6d., post free.
London: E. and F. N. SPON, 16, Bucklersbury.
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COUNTRY COTTAGES: a Series of Designs for anImproved Class of Dwellings for Agricultural Labourers. ByJohn Vincent, Architect. Imperial 4to, cloth, price 12s.
London: E. and F. N. SPON, 16, Bucklersbury.
Footnotes:[1]Single psalms, prayers, hymns, pieces of poetry, &c. written or printed with the aid of illumination, are merely representations of leaves out of books.[2]See Appendix.[3]There is good ground for supposing that, in Winchester, during the 11th century, there was a regular school for the art.[4]Of the collection of the Duc de Berri we read that some of the Bibles cost 300 livres, a Cité de Dieu 200, a Livy 35, and so forth.[5]See example No. 1.[6]See example No. 1.[7]See example No. 4.[8]See fragment of Lectionary (Salisbury) British Museum, p. 27.[9]See Examples8and9.[10]Delamotte’s Book of Ornamental Alphabets will be found an exceedingly useful guide in selecting appropriate character.[11]The Guide Book referred to has three sets of pagings: one for the King’s and Grenville Library, denoted here as KL.; one for the MSS. Saloon, denoted here as MS.; the third for the Prints and Drawings.[12]All these specimens are in the King’s Library.[13]We have, to our surprise, found so much misconception abroad on the subject, that we think it worth while to inform our lady readers that in this room there are seats specially set apart for ladies.
Footnotes:
[1]Single psalms, prayers, hymns, pieces of poetry, &c. written or printed with the aid of illumination, are merely representations of leaves out of books.
[1]Single psalms, prayers, hymns, pieces of poetry, &c. written or printed with the aid of illumination, are merely representations of leaves out of books.
[2]See Appendix.
[2]See Appendix.
[3]There is good ground for supposing that, in Winchester, during the 11th century, there was a regular school for the art.
[3]There is good ground for supposing that, in Winchester, during the 11th century, there was a regular school for the art.
[4]Of the collection of the Duc de Berri we read that some of the Bibles cost 300 livres, a Cité de Dieu 200, a Livy 35, and so forth.
[4]Of the collection of the Duc de Berri we read that some of the Bibles cost 300 livres, a Cité de Dieu 200, a Livy 35, and so forth.
[5]See example No. 1.
[5]See example No. 1.
[6]See example No. 1.
[6]See example No. 1.
[7]See example No. 4.
[7]See example No. 4.
[8]See fragment of Lectionary (Salisbury) British Museum, p. 27.
[8]See fragment of Lectionary (Salisbury) British Museum, p. 27.
[9]See Examples8and9.
[9]See Examples8and9.
[10]Delamotte’s Book of Ornamental Alphabets will be found an exceedingly useful guide in selecting appropriate character.
[10]Delamotte’s Book of Ornamental Alphabets will be found an exceedingly useful guide in selecting appropriate character.
[11]The Guide Book referred to has three sets of pagings: one for the King’s and Grenville Library, denoted here as KL.; one for the MSS. Saloon, denoted here as MS.; the third for the Prints and Drawings.
[11]The Guide Book referred to has three sets of pagings: one for the King’s and Grenville Library, denoted here as KL.; one for the MSS. Saloon, denoted here as MS.; the third for the Prints and Drawings.
[12]All these specimens are in the King’s Library.
[12]All these specimens are in the King’s Library.
[13]We have, to our surprise, found so much misconception abroad on the subject, that we think it worth while to inform our lady readers that in this room there are seats specially set apart for ladies.
[13]We have, to our surprise, found so much misconception abroad on the subject, that we think it worth while to inform our lady readers that in this room there are seats specially set apart for ladies.
Transcriber’s Notes:The cover image is in the public domain.Uncertain or antiquated spellings or ancient words were not corrected.Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.The pages in the text are written in Arabic numbers, but the page designations are written in Roman numerals. This has been preserved in this edition.
Transcriber’s Notes:
The cover image is in the public domain.
Uncertain or antiquated spellings or ancient words were not corrected.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.
The pages in the text are written in Arabic numbers, but the page designations are written in Roman numerals. This has been preserved in this edition.