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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: Calligraphic flourish]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/156-Uncial-Gothic-Capitals-detail-flourish-swirl-q80-372x200.jpg "[picture: Calligraphic flourish]")
![[picture: 170.---Italian Gothic Capitals. 16th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/170-Italian-Gothic-Letters-q75-130x200.jpg "[picture: 170.---Italian Gothic Capitals. 16th Century.]")
170.—Italian Gothic Capitals. 16th Century.
“Figures 170 to 173 exhibit a group of Gothic capitals more or less allied in character and all pen letters.” (p. 140) [more...] [$]
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter E]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/167-German-Gothic-Initials-E-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter E]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter E
This initial letter “E” is suitable for use as a decorative initial or drop cap; it is an old German letter-form, and might not be easily recognised today, especally by people [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: M, N, O, P, Q, T from English Gothic Letters 15th Century]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-M-T-q75-826x200.jpg "[picture: M, N, O, P, Q, T from English Gothic Letters 15th Century]")
M, N, O, P, Q, T from English Gothic Letters 15th Century
Letters “M” “N” “O” “P” “Q” and “T” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. The M is not very legible by today’s standards, but might work as an initial letter or drop cap. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 179.---English gothic Letters, 15th Century. F.C.B.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/179-English-Gothic-letters-15th-Century-q75-133x200.jpg "[picture: 179.---English gothic Letters, 15th Century. F.C.B.]")
179.—English gothic Letters, 15th Century. F.C.B.
“Figures 177 to 179 show some English Gothic Letters, the last being that employed so effectively in the pen-drawn page by Mr. Abbey, [Fig. 153].” (p. 140) [more...] [$]
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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