The Book of Ornamental Alphabets

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Another short but sweet Internet Archive upload, The Book of Ornamental Alphabets (1914) by Freeman Delamotte. The designs are a variety of capitals and alphabets from medieval and later manuscripts. At least one page of this I recognise from a Pepin Press collection of similar ornamental types.

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Paul Franck’s calligraphy
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Studies in Pen Art
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