{"id":16943,"date":"2015-06-26T01:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2015-06-26T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:01:16","slug":"english-printers-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/26\/english-printers-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"English printers&#8217; ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a book designer you can never have too many printers&#8217; ornaments, especially if you&#8217;re required to mimic period designs. These are from a historical overview, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/englishprinterso00plom\" target=\"_blank\"><em>English Printers&#8217; Ornaments<\/em><\/a> (1924) by Henry Robert Plomer. Ideally I&#8217;d prefer several volumes gathering hundreds of these things from different periods but such a hoard seems a distant dream. Collections like this, and contemporary ones by Dover et al, usually have to suffice instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ornaments12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ornaments12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/01\/24\/early-venetian-printing-illustrated\/\">Early Venetian Printing Illustrated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a book designer you can never have too many printers&#8217; ornaments, especially if you&#8217;re required to mimic period designs. These are from a historical overview, English Printers&#8217; Ornaments (1924) by Henry Robert Plomer. Ideally I&#8217;d prefer several volumes gathering hundreds of these things from different periods but such a hoard seems a distant dream. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/26\/english-printers-ornaments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;English printers&#8217; ornaments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,10],"tags":[7416],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-typography","tag-henry-robert-plomer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}