{"id":9898,"date":"2011-09-07T03:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2011-09-07T03:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:23:38","slug":"joseph-balthazar-silvestres-alphabet-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/07\/joseph-balthazar-silvestres-alphabet-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Balthazar Silvestre’s Alphabet-album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monsieur Silvestre’s Alphabet-album<\/em><\/a>, a collection of decorative alphabets, has a lengthy subtitle\u2014Collection de Soixante Feuilles d’Alphabets Histori\u00e9s et Fleuronn\u00e9s, tir\u00e9s des Principales Biblioth\u00e8ques de l’Europe<\/em>\u2014and is a good example of how the 19th century, always characterised as a period of over-elaborate decoration, contains the seeds of 20th-century design. Silvestre’s book dates from 1843 yet contains several examples of sans serif or rectilinear lettering which wouldn’t have looked out of place a hundred years later. There’s also some fine examples of over-elaborate lettering, of course, with the usual embellishments and calligraphic flourishes, and also a page of letterforms based on tree shapes, a common sight in Victorian graphics.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Johann Theodor de Bry\u2019s Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Book of Ornamental Alphabets<\/a>
\n\u2022 Paul Franck\u2019s calligraphy<\/a>
\n\u2022 Gramato-graphices<\/a>
\n\u2022 John Bickham\u2019s Fables and other short poems<\/a>
\n\u2022 Letters and Lettering<\/a>
\n\u2022 Studies in Pen Art<\/a>
\n\u2022 Flourishes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monsieur Silvestre’s Alphabet-album, a collection of decorative alphabets, has a lengthy subtitle\u2014Collection de Soixante Feuilles d’Alphabets Histori\u00e9s et Fleuronn\u00e9s, tir\u00e9s des Principales Biblioth\u00e8ques de l’Europe\u2014and is a good example of how the 19th century, always characterised as a period of over-elaborate decoration, contains the seeds of 20th-century design. Silvestre’s book dates from 1843 yet contains … Continue reading “Joseph Balthazar Silvestre’s Alphabet-album”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,10],"tags":[266,1489,2846,1418,5641],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-typography","tag-calligraphy","tag-johann-theodor-de-bry","tag-joseph-balthazar-silvestre","tag-paul-franck","tag-the-seeds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2zE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}