Borders, Frames and Decorative Motifs from the 1862 Derriey Typographic Catalog (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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In the mid-19th century, typefounders plied their trade with an extraordinary exuberance, creating a new and dazzling range of typefaces and ornamentation that in sheer versatility, ornate beauty, and sumptuousness remain unsurpassed. Today, as never before, their work is sought by artists, designers, and craftspeople for its elegance, expressiveness, and ability to command attention.
This unique volume contains the work of one of the most celebrated typefounders of that glorious era in type design: Charles Derriey, who, from his Parisian foundry, fed the Victorians’ insatiable appetite for decoration and embellishment with a truly fabulous assortment of display types and printers’ ornaments. The 113 plates reprinted here from his 1862 typographic catalog include over 2,500 royalty-free type forms and ornamental designs.
Here is an incredibly rich source of intricately ornamented typefaces along with an eye-catching array of vignettes (dingbats, headpieces, tailpieces, etc.), rules, flourishes, corner elements, and much more, including a wide selection of Victorian frames and border material. Leaf through it and you will find it to be not only a fascinating presentation of type design, but also an extensive sampler of Victorian ornamentation — a valuable reference book and source of royalty-free graphics, sturdily yet inexpensively produced, that will offer you years of inspiration, enjoyment, and practical use.
Publisher : Dover Publications; 2nd edition (April 1, 1987)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0486253228
ISBN-13 : 978-0486253220
Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
Dimensions : 9.36 x 0.35 x 12.2 inches
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Auriel –
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Great work – jammed with ideas for my illustration work
jld –
Five Stars
Great item, fast shipping
My McCarthy –
Perfect…
This was a great book. Exactly what I was looking for, great condition. Super fast shipping. I would definitely purchase from this shop again.
DO HOAI NAM –
Nice content
This book has useful designs, but the images for Kindle ebook are low resolution. It’s hard to see, and images are pixelated when zoom in.
Larissa –
Disappointed
the book is great, but it arrived with water stains and mildew.
Kindle Customer –
Ever wonder where the ideas for dingbat fonts came from?
This is it. This book is great for the Web designer looking for border and penwork examples. Beautiful examples of typographic patterns that mix and match. Want to make an elegant logo with a punch? Look at how just a few simple pen strokes can become elegant borders. These were the examples I needed at the right time.
Robert Clement –
Three Stars
Defficult to use it and very smal image chose the hard copy not the internet file.
B. D. Holloway –
A great book, but…
The work in this book is awesome, but I was really let down by the paper and print quality of this book…all the work in the book is now copyright free and I was really hoping to use some of it in my work but because the work is so intricate, the printing quality makes much of it unusable. A big disapointment.
Olivera –
Book is in very good condition, almost like a new.It has a lot of borders, ornaments and other decorative motifs, excellent for inspiration. Recommend this seller.
Karen –
Would be beautiful if this was in a higher resolution. I had trouble, even when holding my Ipad in portrait aspect, on seeing the detail in a lot of the pages. Pinch and zoom made it fuzzy. So I can’t say I’m completely satisfied
Amazon Customer –
Very useful, various frames, all beautiful