A museum of medieval alphabets and devices. A treasury of antique letterforms. Henry Shaws Hand Book Of Mediaeval Alphabets And Devices gathers an exceptional medieval alphabet collection, carefully reproducing middle ages script, ornamented capitals and the decorative patterns found in illuminated manuscript designs. The plates range from formal specimen alphabets to playful initials and marginal ornament, making the work as useful to an amateur tracing letter shapes as to a professional seeking a calligraphy inspiration book. Alongside decorative motifs there is measured attention to historical lettering styles and to emblematic devices, so that the title doubles as a heraldic emblems reference and a compact atlas of medieval art motifs. Beyond study, it functions as a graphic designers resource and an art historians guide an intersection of practice and provenance. Steeped in Victorian era typography sensibilities, Shaw organises examples so that letterforms speak at once as craft, pattern and cultural document. Its literary and historical significance is plain Shaw recorded antique letterforms during a period of revived interest in medieval craft, and his specimens preserve forms that later typographers and illustrators would examine and adapt. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for todays and future generations. More than a reprint a collectors item and a cultural treasure. For casual readers the plates evoke the visual drama...

Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: Alpha Editions; Classification: N/A; Weight: 329.11 g; Dimensions: N/A

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