Recueil d'alphabets : dédié aux artistes
A French alphabet pattern book of 1870 by Jules Blondeau and François-Constant Mès, dedicated to artists and designers, with later Cooper-Hewitt Museum holdings. The pages show full alphabets in decorative display letterforms, including shaded three-dimensional capitals, Victorian ornamented initials, and inline and outlined faces that suggest ready models for headline lettering.
