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Each page of this versatile archive contains approximately 40 magnificently embellished individual letters of the alphabet. (Theres also an additional page of equally attractive Arabic and Roman numerals.) Foliated and filigreed designs ranging from small to large, simple to spectacular display the meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail that have become synonymous with Victorian design.
Commercial artists, graphic designers, and craftspeople will find this elegant and versatile treasury of copyright-free decorative letters an excellent and indispensable sourcebook for graphic projects calling for old-fashioned Victorian charm.
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Copyright 1988 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.
This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is an unabridged reproduction of all the plates of One Thousand and One Initial Letters Designed and Illuminated by Owen Jones (originally published by Day & Son, London) as published in Germany by Ludwig Denicke, Leipzig, 1864. The letterpress title page to the German edition is here omitted.
DOVER Pitorial Archive SERIES
This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501.)
However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service whether it be in a book or in any other design resource is strictly prohibited.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874.
[One thousand and one initial letters]
1001 illuminated initial letters : 27 full-color plates / by Owen Jones
p. cm.(Dover pictorial archive series)
Reprint. Originally published: One thousand and one initial letters. London : Day & Son, 1864.
9780486155432
1. Initials. 2. Alphabets. 3. Decoration and ornament, Victorian. 4. Illumination of books and manuscripts. I. Title. II. Title: One thousand and one illuminated initial letters. III. Series.
NK3625.V53J66 1988
745.61970924dcl9
87-36492 CIP
IN RESPONSE to the harsh regimentation imposed by the Industrial Revolution on many aspects of life, artists and craftsmen of the nineteenth century looked to the examples of the past as they tried to reassert the individuality of the artist. The Middle Ages, especially the Gothic Period, was a source of major inspiration to them, for its spirituality exercised potent attractions.
Starting in the mid-eighteenth century, the Gothic Revival made its influence felt throughout the arts, from architecture and carpentry to book production. Of those who worked in calligraphy and typography, William Morris is perhaps most famous, but many others made distinctive contributions.
Owen Jones (18091874), noted for his The Grammar of Ornament (the plates of which have been reproduced by Dover Publications, 25463-1), executed illuminations, predating Morris work, that were particularly influential. Many of the letters appearing in One Thousand and One Initial Letters had been previously published in The Psalms of David Illustrated by Owen Jones (the Victoria Psalter), 1861. Far from slavish copies of the Gothic, they demonstrate a fecundity of imagination that makes them as vivid today as when they were first designed.
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