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Decorated Initials

Display letters cut for posters and title pages, one to a tile: an initial on its own, or a name spelled across a row. From 1828 to 1832 come shaded capitals inlaid with flowers, filled with oak-leaf scrolls or cut with a fluted inline. From 1889 come blackletter in curling vines, spiral capitals and letters built from small tiles.

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