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Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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vention of printing, we find them in the Manuscripts ofthe Middle Ages. The Title-pages were framed or bordered; it wasalso a favourite practice to border the headings; Initials are some-times treated in this way; and Printers-marks, and Head and Tail-pieces are often designed with Strap - work. Old books are oftenrichly decorated with such things; and artists of the highest rankoften lent their aid to this style of decoration. After the sobrietywhich ruled in the first half of this century, our modern times havedevoted increased attention to this branch. Breaches of taste arestill committed in this direction, principally because factory-madeBlocks, Borders, and Rules, are combined without judgment inTypography. Not only books, but also diplomas, addresses, ball-pro-grammes, dinner and business - cards, labels, book-plates, and similarthings are furnished with artistic borders. The principles of decoration,and the motives employed, are very varied; and great freedom is al- 472 FRAMES.
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Plate 267. The Typographical Frame. FRAMES. 473

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