The Dictes and Sayinges is printed throughout in black ink, in long lines, twenty-nine to a page, with space left at the beginning of the chapters for the insertion of initial letters.
This broad square set letter is not found in any other book of De Worde's, though he continued to use a set of initial letters which he obtained from the same printer for many years.
Spaces were frequently left, both in the block books and in the earliest books printed with movable type, for the illumination, by hand, of initial letters, so as to carry the illusion as far as possible.
The following are the names and initial letters at the back of the blocks.
What Hegner has said respecting the alphabets of initial letters, is at once futile and inaccurate; but his comment on Hans Lutzenberger deserves the severest censure.
A Dance of Death, extremely well executed on wood, the designs of which have been taken from a set of initial letters, that will hereafter be particularly described.
Holbein began to practise wood-engraving as soon as he settled in Bâsle, and designed many titlepages, initial letters, and cuts for the publishers of that city.
As Initial Letters they were much modified and embellished, and so gave rise to the art of Illumination (see pp.
We may pass most naturally from writing to the decoration of writing, by the making and placing of initial letters.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "initial letters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
