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![[picture: Front Cover, Letters and Lettering]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-345x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Letters and Lettering]")
Images from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown, Boston, 1921.
A note printed immediately after the title and impressions pages starts out, “This book is intended for those who have felt the need of a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged for convenient use.”
Frank Chouteay Brown was an architect based in Boston; this book, Letters and Lettering, was for many American architects and designers their first introduction to Roman monumental capital letters. The book had five editions, of which the first was in 1902.
Title: Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples
City: Boston
Date: 1921
Total items: 76
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Letter M from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterM-q75-246x200.jpg "[picture: Letter M from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
![[picture: Letter D from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterD-q75-213x200.jpg "[picture: Letter D from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
![[picture: 167.---German Gothic Initials [A--H].]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/167-German-Gothic-Initials-A-H-q75-280x200.jpg "[picture: 167.---German Gothic Initials [A--H].]")
167.—German Gothic Initials [A – H].
German Fraktur blackletter, with an insane amount of swirls! Letters “A” – “H” are in this figure. It was too large for a useful download here, although I have made the individual letters [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: 3.---Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/003-Proportions-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: 3.---Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals.]")
3.—Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals.
“Width proportions, which may be found useful in laying out lettering for lines of a given length, are shown in [Fig. 3] in a more modern style of the Roman capital. In the classic Roman letter the cross-bar is usually in the exact center of the letter height, but in 3 the center [...]b, e, h, p, and r, and as the top of the cross-bar in a; and in letters like k, y and x the “waist lines,” as the meeting-points of the sloping lines are sometimes called, have been slightly raised to obtain a more pleasant effect.” (p. 6) [more...]
[$]![[picture: Letter H from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/001-Alphabet-After-Serlio-letterH-q75-225x200.jpg "[picture: Letter H from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
Images from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown, Boston, 1921.
A note printed immediately after the title and impressions pages starts out, “This book is intended for those who have felt the need of a varied collection of alphabets of standard forms, arranged for convenient use.”
Frank Chouteay Brown was an architect based in Boston; this book, Letters and Lettering, was for many American architects and designers their first introduction to Roman monumental capital letters. The book had five editions, of which the first was in 1902.
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