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Hi Folks, click HERE to go to a book called the Modern signwriter and up to date ornamentor.
It is a book I have been looking for for years after reading an old review on it, and seeing pictures of the coloured leafy acanthus scrolls.
The PDF can be downloaded-it's only about 3.5 meg.
Happy browsing!
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Very nice! 1895 date... Would love to see more from that time as the scroll work really is something that we have lost in today's design look.
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It is beautiful. I knew about the book years ago, having read a book review in a 1902 trade journal. However they made a spelling mistake in the word 'ornamenter', (called it ornamentator), and got the 'modern up to date' part at the wrong end of the name, so every time I did a search of online shops etc, I could not find it.
Suddenly, changing spellings and being a bit more vague, and 'bingo!' here it is!
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It's only 3 meg, Rick-I went and downloaded it as a file and opened the pdf on the hard drive, then saved the first 16 pages as jpgs from Photoshop & printed them off as 8x12 photos - it worked fine.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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After I looked at the book, I could see its influence in the panel I have hanging on my wall from a swap a few years ago. Bravo - as Kathy said, "Inspirational"....
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