2,100 Victorian Monograms (Lettering, Calligraphy, Typography)

I absolutely love all the variations in style, and that it shows both the capital and small case letters for each type. 2/3 through there are examples of different styles put together to show how they could be used for different advertising effects and then examples of actual old posters, which I found interesting. But it was the addition of monograms in various stylings with an explanation of what would be needed to create my own that was most helpful as that was my goal with purchasing this book.

The media could not be loaded. Happy with purchase would recommend adding Labels or indicators of which styles belong to what letters. I’m loving this book, used it many times already for designs in different ways. I started doing tattoo sketches to use for stencils to eventually be tattooed. Then I started writing out an alphabet in a style I really like (on pic 4 it’s on the bottom right), to use in Procreate. I took the letters in the program from a pic I took and started copying and rearranging them to spell out my message. This book is versatile in what I can do with it with my own creativity. I didn’t expect to find most of my letters in here, even though it was hard to find with no labels or such indicators as to what font types they are. Other than Victorian era. Overall I’m pleased with my purchase and would recommend to you creative types and people looking to expand their ideas about fancy, ornate letter styles.

Book was shipped quickly, item as described, A+ service.

This book has a large number of copyright-free monograms. It does not have as many as 5000 Decorative Monograms for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series), for obvious reasons. I still felt that having both was worthwhile, because this book gives many examples in a few more closely related styles, whereas the other one was a wider variety of styles, but if you're budget-conscious, I'd recommend the other book I linked.

Nothing like I thought it would be. All clip art. Pretty small too. Only fir copying and enlarging.

Great and very helpful book for engravers or art designers! Highly recommended! Book came little smashed, due to soft package, but overall I’m satisfied.

I really like the content of this book, and although it was new the copy was not clear enough to use. It looked like it was printed on a dirty copy machine. I contacted the publisher. They checked their stock and found this was probably just a bad copy. They were quick to send me a clean copy which I really like. my transaction with Amazon was, as always perfect.

So many elegant, complex & diverse samples of monograms... I am in love with this book!!! An excellent addition to my reference art books library. I would buy it again & again if I could.