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English printers' ornaments

Chapter 26: FOOTNOTES:
By Henry R. Plomer
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An illustrated study traces the introduction and development of decorative elements used by English printers from the fifteenth century through the nineteenth and into modern practice. It defines printers' ornaments—head and tail pieces, initial letters, borders, and decorative blocks—distinguishes them from printers' devices, and follows their origins in manuscript illumination, early adoption on title-pages and first pages, and gradual growth into complex borders and small ornaments. Organized by topic, the text surveys notable English craftsmen, catalogs representative examples, and concludes with a chapter on contemporary presswork accompanied by plates and a descriptive catalogue.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Fleuron, a journal of typography, edited by Oliver Simon, 1923.

[2] A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing, with practical instructions to the trade in general. London, 1770, pp. 287–90.

[3] T. B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter-Foundries, 1887, p. 28.

[4] A. W. Pollard, Early Illustrated Books, 1893, p. 228.

[5] C. Sayle, “Initial Letters in Early English Printed Books” (Transactions of the Bibliographical Society).

[6] Harl. 5915 (45).

[7] English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557. Sandars Lectures, 1911. Cambridge, 1912, 8vo.

[8] Two Centuries of Type-founding. [By J. F. McRae.] 1920.

[9] Harl. 5929.

[10] H. Hart, Notes on a Century of Typography, 1900, p. 145.

[11] The Charles Whittinghams Printer, 1896.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.

3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.