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Letter B from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter B taken from Fig. 1.

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Added: 2006-02-22

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Initial letter B Woodcut A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative initial letter “B” used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a paragraph. The woodut (or wood engraving) shows a tree and a building in the background. I have included multiple [...]

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Added: 2007-08-09

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Decorative initial letter B Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

An almost-naked young mang sits on a rock and plays a recorder or pipe in a forest; his dog sits next to him, and in the background a young woman approaches. There is a large letter “B” in the German [...]

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Added: 2009-10-18

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter B by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “B” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: A couple sit together in the foreground, holding hands; in the backgrouns smoke rises from a buildi [...]

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Historiated decorative initial capital letter B in Blue Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Letter “B” from Valerio Spada’s historiated alphabet print from 1659. I have coloured the letter itself in blue; you could easily change the blue to something else of course.

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Added: 2011-05-31

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Decorative initial letter “B” with boy and book Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This decorative initial letter B was used as a drop cap alongside a poem. It features an open book with a quill pen, old-fashioned spectacles scrollwork, roses, fruit, a styilized su with rays shoning [...]

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Added: 2012-10-14

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Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century No. 1 The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Calligraphic letter B from XIV. Century No. 1.

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Added: 2003-05-26

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Decorative initial letter “B” from 16th Century Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This capital “B” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It is taken from a 16th century alphabet, and feature [...]

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Added: 2009-11-09

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62b.—Initial capital letter “B” from Dance of Death Alphabet Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “B”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features two skeletons, or death-figures, a dog and a pope. Some commentators say [...]

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Added: 2009-03-07

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clipart: initial letter B from late 15th century printed book Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

A decorative initial “B” taken from a late 15th century alphabet. You could use it as a drop capital, an avatar, or something to colour in. If you use it, let me know what you did!

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Added: 2008-08-13

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Decorative initial letter B from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5. The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Decorative initial letter B from Fifteenth Century No. 4.

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Added: 2009-09-18

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167.—German Gothic Initials [A – H]. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

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 available, a [...]

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Added: 2011-01-14

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