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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: 77
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 1.---Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/001-Alphabet-After-Serlio-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: 1.---Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross.]")
1.—Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross.
Constructed capitals: diagram showing how to draw letters with rulers and compasses against a grid. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letter F from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterF-q75-200x200.jpg "[picture: Letter F from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
Letter F from “Alphabet after Serlio”
The letter F taken from Fig. 2. [$]
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Letter D from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/002-Alphabet-After-Serlio-LetterD-q75-213x200.jpg "[picture: Letter D from ``Alphabet after Serlio'']")
Letter D from “Alphabet after Serlio”
The letter D taken from Fig. 2. [$]
![[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter L]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brown-LettersAndLettering/wm/big/168-German-Gothic-Initials-L-121x200.jpg "[picture: German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter L]")
German Gothic Initials - Swirly Fraktur Blackletter Initial Letter L
This swirly calligraphic ornate intense capital L 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...] [$]
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