I recently stumbled in a very old book from 1887, called Diario delle Feste Fiorentine.
This book is full of decorative drop caps with a lot of details .
I wanted to share some of them here on my blog for your inspiration.
Enjoy!
Florence 1887 drop caps
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Molto interessante questa ricerca!
Wonderful site and theme, would really like to see a bit more content though!
Great post all around, added your XML feed! Love this theme, too!
Good Day Friends,
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Fascinating to see these old designs. Look closely and you can see it’s modular: square letter with background – then optional small top decoration and optional trailing bottom sections.
Let’s celebrate the huge effort in creating this work: the design effort, then creating the relief printing blocks, then the skill of composing this and locking it into a chase with the normal letters. Even operating the press was a skilled activity in those days.
So true John!
Thanks for stopping by
Very nice blog and informations!
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really nice, thanks for sharing…
Wow. I love these!
Vielen Dank für erklärnt.
nice!