A new artistic alphabet / designed by Theodore de Bry, Frankfort-on-Main, 1595
A new artistic alphabet is a set of decorative letter designs by Theodor de Bry, first made at Frankfurt-on-Main in 1595 and reissued in Edinburgh by G. Waterston in 1880 for letterers and ornamentalists. Its plates build each letter from a vertical strut hung with a standing figure, cherubs, birds, insects, armour, fruit and drapery, all in fine engraved line on cream paper, showing how a designer can fuse a letterform with figurative ornament.
