The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Medieval, from the Eighth Century / With Numerals, including Gothic; Church Text, Large and / Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination, / Monograms, Crosses, &c.

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SIXTEENTH EDITION LONDON: CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON, 7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1914.
As there are no works of Ancient Alphabets of any excellence published in a cheap form, I have been induced, after many years' study and research in my profession as a Draughtsman and Engraver, to offer this collection to the favourable notice of the public, trusting that its very moderate price and general usefulness will be a sufficient apology for the undertaking.
The demand for a Fourth Edition within so short a period of the publication of the Third, has convinced me in the most agreeable manner that it has been a work required by the public. To render it still more worthy of their attention, I have here introduced some additions, likely to enhance the interest and increase the value of the pages, as an indication of the esteem in which I have held the encouragement, and the respect I have paid to the suggestions of the purchasers of this book, and the critics by whom it has been so liberally reviewed.
8th Century. Vatican.
8th Century. British Museum.
8th and 9th Centuries. Anglo-Saxon.
9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey.
From MS. Library of Minerva, Rome.
10th Century. British Museum.
11th Century, and Numerals.