Historic Alphabet Selections Group N
Historic Alphabet Selections Group N
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.”
Marcel Duchamp
Alphabet Above: Sixteenth Century. Printed in Venice by the Aldi.
Artwork above was scanned from the book “Historic Alphabets & Initials Woodcut & Ornamental” Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. The book artwork is all in black and white. Colors applied by Granite Bay Design. Click any gallery image below to go to see that artwork.