Various Initial Letters and Alphabets (page 2/2)

Baroque Decorative Alphabet from Amsterdam

Completed decorative alphabet from the Wetstein Foundry; these types were cut by Joan Michael Fleischman (1701–1768). [more...] [$]

Ornamental Cpaitals from England, 19th Century

These were reproduced in a book called Alphabets published by l’Aventurine. They would have been sold for use as dropped capitals at the start of chapters. I coloured them and straightened them somewhat. [more...] [$]

Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from Stuttgart

Otto Weisert was a type-maker in Stuttgart, in Germany. Although he is best known today for the typeface Arnold Boecklin, he made many other designs; this one is Initialen No. 17, or Initial No.18. [more...] [$]