By Hayward Cirker,Blanche Cirker
This ebook comprises the whole contents of 4 positive volumes of monogram and allied units released among 1830 and 1881. Over 2,500 monogrammatic and alphabetic designs are displayed in plates from "Dictionnaire du Chiffre-monogramme," etc., through Charles Demengeot (1881); "Monograms and Ciphers," by way of H. Renoir (1870–74); "Knight's New e-book of 7 Hundred & 58 simple, Ornamented & Reversed Cyphers" (1830); and "Monograms in 3 and 4 Letters," via J. Gordon Smith (n.d.).
There are monograms in each two-letter mix and wide choices of 3 and 4 letters; identify units ("Alice," "Theodore," etc.), crowns, crests, coats of fingers and helmets. There are heavy, intricately entwined monograms that seem as if engraved on steel; lighter, thick-and-thin script types; fanciful and formal designs; monograms in circles, ovals, sq. shapes, and unfastened define; and an enormous number of letter types, together with many designed for the actual device.
A remarkable function of this quantity is the Index of Monograms and Ciphers, directory alphabetically each letter mix proven and the web page or pages on which each and every seems ("S W", for instance, is drawn in 3 varied kinds; "A L" in 5; yet "F N H W" in just one); and an Index of Names and units. either positive factors upload vastly to the usefulness of the booklet. Importantly, each gadget proven will be reproduced via the shopper freed from charge.
Artists, designers, engravers, and craftspeople will locate this ebook a prolific resource of notion and weird kinds; typographers, calligraphers, draftspeople , and scholars will use it as an relief in growing their very own letter designs; whereas these within the printing, publishing, ads, and allied fields will name upon it at any time when a particular monogram or ornament is needed.
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