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• Clichés & gravures. (Deberny & Cie, 1912), by Fonderies Deberny & Peignot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• English printers' ornaments, by Henry R. Plomer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Specimen Book of Printing Types (1858), by Chas. T. White & Co. (page images at ohiomemory.org)

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• Muestrario de los tipos y viñetas de la Imprenta y Encuadernación Barcelona. (Imprenta y Encuadernación Barcelona, 1895), by Imprenta y Encuadernación Barcelona (page images at HathiTrust)
• Printers' flowers; whimsicalities from the Windsor press. ([San Francisco, 1933), by Windsor Press and James Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita del cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernino (A spese di Rocco Bernabò, 1713), by Domenico Bernini, Arnold van Westerhout, and Giovanni Battista Gaulli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of book, newspaper, jobbing and ornamental types. (Miller and Richard, 1902), by Miller and Richard (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le croquis-calque adapté a l'etude des différents styles de reliure : a l'usage des cours professionnels de dessin et de dorure sur cuir du Syndicat patronal de la reliure et de la brochure (Syndicat patronal de la reliure et de la brochure, 1904), by Paul Gruel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Booklet of designs. (Will Bradley's Art Service for Advertisers, 1914), by Will Bradley and John Henry Nash (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimen book of type (American Type Founders Co., 1897), by American Type Founders Company and Frederick Folger Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musee Plantin-Moretus a Anvers : notice historique (Jos. Maes, 1880), by Max Rooses, Christophe Plantin, J. Maes, and Mees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clichés & gravures. (Deberny & Cie, 1912), by Fonderies Deberny & Peignot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A specimen of printing types & various ornaments, 1796, reproduced, together with the Sale catalogue of the British Letter-Foundry 1797 (Printing Historical Society, 1990), by S. & C. Stephenson and James Mosley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vogue ornaments. (Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, in the 1900s), by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brass rule. (Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, 1900), by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (page images at HathiTrust)
• New type faces, borders, ornaments (American Type Founders Company, 1912), by American Type Founders Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A specimen of cast ornaments (Printed by C. Whittingham ..., 1795), by William Caslon and Charles Whittingham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der St. Galler Folchart-Psalter: Eine Initialenstudie (in German; St. Gallen, Fehr, 1912), by Franz Landsberger
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• The art of illumination, as practised during the middle ages : with a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods (Bell and Daldy, 1870), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Initialen von Hans Holbein (J. H. E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1900), by Hans Holbein and Gustav Schneeli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Initials and miniatures of the IXth, Xth, and XIth centuries from the Mozarabic manuscripts of Santo Domingo de Silos in the British Museum ([The De Vinne Press], 1904), by Archer M. Huntington and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times : illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets (Day and Son, 1860), by W. R. Tymms and M. Digby Wyatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peintures et initiales de la première [et seconde] Bible de Charles le Chave ... (Impr. Berthaud frères, 1911), by Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits, Henri Auguste Omont, King of France Charles II, and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Initial letters (Bridgman Publishers, 1928), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iniziali istoriate e iniziali fiorite o arabescate (Tipografia Giuntina, 1925), by Giuseppe Boffito (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early woodcut initials; containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Methuen and co., 1908), by Oscar Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trésor calligraphique; recueil de lettrines, initiales, etc.: du moyen âge et de l'époque de la renaissance (L. Seghers et fils, 1878), by Louis Seghers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Initialen, Alphabete und Randleisten : verschiedener Kunstepochen (Carl Graeser, 1897), by Carl Hrachowina and K.K. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (B. T. Batsford, 1902), by Lewis F. Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Trierer Ada-handschrift (A. Dürr, 1889), by Karl Lamprecht, F. Hettner, Alexander Schnütgen, Hubert Janitschek, Peter Corssen, and Karl Menzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettering in ornament : an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (B.T. Batsford, 1914), by Lewis Foreman Day (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De letters der Plantijnsche drukkerij, 1555-1589. (De Nederlandsche boekhandel, 1904), by Max Rooses (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Albanipsalter in Hildesheim und seine beziehung zur symbolischen kirchensculptur des XII. jahrhunderts. (G. Siemens, 1895), by Adolph Goldschmidt, Hildesheim (Germany). St. Godehardskirche, and Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times. (Day, 1866), by W. R. Tymms and M. Digby Wyatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstvolle miniaturen & initialen aus handschriften des 4. bis 16. jahrhunderts incl. mit besonderer berücksichtigung der in der Hof- und staatsbibliothek zu München befindlichen manuskripte. (J. Albert, 1892), by Luise von Kobell and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unedierte Federzeichnungen, Miniaturen und Initialen des Mittelalters. (Schlesier & Schweikhardt, 1902), by Robert Forrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Buchmalerei in St. Gallen, vom neunten bis zum elften Jahrhundert; mit 104 Lichdrucktafeln darunter 8 farbig. (K.W. Hiersemann, 1923), by Adolf Merton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Livres à figures vénitiens (L. S. Olschki;, 1967), by Victor Masséna Essling and Charles Gérard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zoomorficheskīe init︠s︡īaly grecheskikh i glagolicheskikh rukopiseĭ X-go--XI-go stol. v Biblīoteki︠e︡ Sinaĭskago monastyri︠a︡. (Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova], 1903), by Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) and N. P. Kondakov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Initial-Ornamentik des VIII. bis XIII. Jahrhunderts. (A. Dürr, 1882), by Karl Lamprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Initialen von Hans Holbein (J. H. E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1900), by Hans Holbein and Gustav Schneeli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schriften Atlas; eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit nebst Initialen, Monogrammen, Wappen, Landesfarben und heraldischen Motiven, für die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgewerbes (J. Hoffmann, 1898), by Ludwig Petzendorfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestions for illuminating : with a series of alphabets and designs for initial letters, borders, &c ([s.n., 1863), by W. Randle Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etudes sur l'art de la gravure sur bois à Venise. Les livres àfigures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe. (L. S. Olschki;, 1907), by Victor Masséna Essling and Charles Gérard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sammlung von initialen aus werken vom 11.-17. jahrhunderts (J. Brehse, 1890), by Xaver Arnold and Konrad Knoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Miniaturen in den Basler Bibliotheken, Museen und Archiven, mit Unterstützung der Universitätsbibliothek, der öffentl. Kunstsammlung und der Jakob Burckhardt-Stiftung. (Kober C. F. Spittlers Nachfolger, 1917), by Konrad Escher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illuminated initial letters and ancient and modern alphabets (Newbery & Compy., in the 1850s) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New and complete book of cyphers (Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles ..., 1777), by John Lockington and Carington Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monogramme industriel (M. Gerlach & Cie., 1881), by Martin Gerlach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung von Initialen. Band 1 (Leipzig : Verlag von L. Denicke, [1867-1868], 1867), by Eduard Knoll and Xaver Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schriften Atlas : eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit, nebst initialen, Monogrammen, Wappen, Landesfarben und heraldischen Motiven für die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgewerbes (Stuttgart : Verlag von Julius Hoffmann, 1889., 1889), by Ludwig Petzendorfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil ou alphabet de lettres initiales historiques : avec bordures et fleurons d'après le 14 et 15 siècles (G. Jacmain, 1846), by J. Midolle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Doktor Faust; ein Tanzpoem. Nebst kuriosen Berichten über Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst, 1847. (Morawe & Scheffelt, 1912), by Heinrich Hein and Karl Georg Wendriner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die buchmalerei in St. Gallen : vom neunten bis zum elften jahrhundert (Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1912), by Adolf Merton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schriften-Atlas (J. Hoffmann, 1882), by Ludwig Petzendorfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Woodcut Initials: Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, by Oscar Jennings (Gutenberg ebook)
• Emblematic Illumination; or Forms, Colours and Emblems: Suitable for Illuminating Texts of Holy Scripture in Large Style, in Oils or Water-colours., ed. by F. M. Redgrave (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating: Condensed from 'The Art of Illuminating' by the same illustrator and author, by M. Digby Wyatt, illust. by W. R. Tymms (Gutenberg ebook)
• One Thousand and One Initial Letters, by Owen Jones (Gutenberg ebook)

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