Modern painters
Modern Painters is a 1907 art-criticism volume by John Ruskin, published in London by G. Routledge & Sons and in New York by E.P. Dutton, aimed at readers of aesthetics and painting. Its two pictures are a black-and-white ex libris bookplate with a classical colonnade, sea view and ornamental lettering, and an ornate decorative initial R framing a bearded crowned king above an arched gateway. A designer might borrow the bookplate's architectural framing and the initial's dense, vine-like border work for historical typography and print layouts.
