The Human Alphabet

Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)

Blue-Sky Thinking: The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight (1877)

Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)

Manual Training — Play Problems (1917)

16th-Century Pattern Book for Scribes

16th-Century Ornament Prints

Hoefnagel’s Guide to Constructing the Letters (ca. 1595)

An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)

The Tibetan Book of Proportions

The Funny Alphabet (ca.1850)

Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)

Böckler’s Pleasure Garden Plans (1664)

Through the Eye to the Heart: Bible Symbols (1908 edition)

A Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards (1886)

On the Writing of the Insane (1870)

Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867)

Manuscript Handbook of Firework Design (1785)

The Proper Art of Writing (1655)

Illustrated initials from a German fairytale book (1919 edition)

17th-century Heraldry Designs (1695)

Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements (1885)

Catalogue of the 68 Competitive Designs for the Great Tower for London (1890)

The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid (1847)