[Fig. 206.]—(Two portions) From a Rubbing of a Florentine marble dated MCCCCLXVII., slightly reduced (scale twelve-thirteenths). Note the interlinear spaces are 134 inch.
[Fig. 207.]—From a Rubbing of a Slate at Rye, dated 1655 (see p. [363]). Exact size.
[Fig. 208.]—From a Rubbing of a Stone at Oxford (by A. E. R. Gill, 1905). Reduced, two-thirds scale.
It is quite possible to make a beautiful and characteristic alphabet of equal-stroke letters, on the lines of the so-called “Block Letter” but properly proportioned and finished (such letters may be Raised, or Incised or Painted: see incised form, p. [391]).
Raised letters, if exposed to wear or damage, may be protected by being on a sunk panel or having a raised frame or ornament. The background also may be left in raised strips flush with the letters, between the lines of the inscription.
Punctuation.—In early inscriptions the words were separated by points; in the more ancient they are square shaped