Special

Subjects

Didron’s Christian Iconography (or the His¬
tory of Christian Art in the Middle Ages) :
2 vols.

LETTERING, &c.

Lettering in Ornament : Lewis F. Day, 1902.

Alphabets : Edward F. Strange (1895). 7s. 6d.

The P aleeographical Society's Publications (out
of print), containing hundreds of fac¬
similes (chiefly of MSS.), are of great
interest. They may of course be seen
in the British Museum Library. The
New Palaographical Society publishes a
selection of facsimiles annually.

Htibner’s Exempla Scripturae Epigraphicae
Latinae a Caesaris dictatoris morte ad
aetatem Justiniani (Berlin, 1885), con¬
tains many fine outline drawings of
ancient Roman inscriptions (see figs.
203~5)- It is kept with the books of
reference in the Reading Room at the
British Museum.

Photographs of fine pieces of lettering may
be obtained at the Book Stall in the
Victoria & Albert Museum, South Ken¬
sington (see footnote, p. 371).

Original MSS. or Inscriptions—from which we
can learn much more than from photographs or
drawings—may be found in most parts of the
country, and in London especially in the British
Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum (see
P- 355)> the Record Office (Rolls Chapel, see p. viii),
and Westminster Abbey (MSS. in the Chapter-
House).

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CHAPTER XVII

INSCRIPTIONS IN STONE
(By A. E. R. Gill)

Arrangement—The Three Alphabets—Size & Spacing
The Material—Setting Out—Tools—A Right Use
of the Chisel—Incised Letters & Letters in Relief—
The Sections of Letters—Working in situ.

ARRANGEMENT

Inscriptions are carved in stone for many uses:
for Foundation Stones and Public Inscriptions, for
Tombstones and Memorial Inscriptions, for Mottos
and Texts, for Names and Advertisements, and each
subject suggests its own treatment.

Colour and Gold may be used both for the beauty
of them and, in places where there is little light, to
increase legibility.

Arrangement.—There are two methods of arrang¬
ing Inscriptions: the “Massed” and the Sym¬
metrical.” In the former the lines are very close

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Inscriptions
in Stone